Stages Of Attachment

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

Who is emotion intensity directed at in early attachment

Question 2

Procedure

Answer 2

60 babies
29 females
Once a month visit for a year then at 18 month

Question 3

Findings

Answer 3

25-35 weeks 50%seperation anxiety
40 weeks 80% specific attachment and
30% multiple attachments

Question 4

Conclusion

Answer 4

Four stages

Question 5

What are the four stages?

Answer 5

Asocial stage
Indiscriminate attatchment
Discriminate attchtachment
Multiple attachments

Question 6

Asocial stage

Answer 6

Forms bonds

Similair reactions to humans and objects

Question 7

Indiscriminate attatchment

Answer 7

No seperation/ stranger anxiety

2-7 month observable behaviour

Question 8

Discriminate attatchment

Answer 8

65% stranger/seperation anxiety

Specific attatchment primary caregiver

Question 9

Multiple attachments

Answer 9

Secondary attatchment 30% by 1

Question 10

Evaluation point 1 -

Answer 10

P- applicable
E- 60 babies = large sample
CA- ungeneralisable
E- all from Glasgow and working class

Question 11

Evaluation point 2 +

Answer 11

P- beh used to measure attatchemts uninformative
E- Schaffer rand Emerson stranger and seperation anxiety- more complex than that
CA- simple beh allows scientific studying
E- Reliable

Question 12

Bowlby

Answer 12

Forms attachments to single carer before we can to multiple attatchments