stages of attachment Flashcards

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Who studied the stages of attachment ?

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Schaffer and Emerson

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What was the procedure for the stages of attachment ?

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  • observational
  • studied 60 working class babies
  • visited every month for a year
  • mothers interviewed
  • wanted to find out how babies responded to seperation and at what age
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What are the 4 stages of attachment ?

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  • asocial stage
  • indiscriminate stage
  • specific attachment
  • multiple attachment
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What is the first stage of attachment ?

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Name: social stage
Age: 0-6 months
Responses: similar response
- forming bonds
- preference to facial features

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What is the second stage of attachment ?

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Name: indiscriminate stage
Age: 2-7 months
Responses: - obvious and observable behaviours
- prefer humans over objects

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What is the third stage of attachment ?

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Name: specific attachment
Age: 7 - 12 months
Responses: - signs of attachment to one person
- strangers and seperation anxiety
- there is a primary caregiver who infants interact with the most with

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What is the 4th stage of attachment ?

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Name: Multiple attachment
Age: 12+ months
Responses: - show attachment to multiple people
- 29% formed attachment in the same months as the primary care giver

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What are the strengths of the stages of attachement theory ?

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  • completed in the child’s home which is a natural environment
  • real-life application (in nursery there is more anxiety in the selective attachment age)
  • high external validity
  • longitudinal ( looked at over time)
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What are the limitations of the stages of attachment theory ?

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  • low internal validity as there may be the mothers bias as they conduct some of the observation
  • the observer may not be able to pick up all of the details and anxieties
  • ethnocentric - focuses on one location and class and not multiple cultures
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