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What were Schaffers stages of attachment

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  1. Asocial
  2. Indiscrimate
  3. Specific
  4. Multiple
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What happens in the Asocial stage of attachment?

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behaviour is the same towards humans and objects with a slight preference towards humans

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What happens in the Indiscriminate attachment stage?

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Babies prefer humans to objects and show no stranger anxiety so can be comforted by anyone

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What happens in the specific attachment stage?

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Attachment is formed to primary caregiver, infant shows stranger and seperation anxiety

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What happens in the multiple attachment stage?

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29% of children developed a secondary attachment within one month of primary attachment, usually towards father

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What are the issues with Schaffers stage of attachment?

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Limited, simple characteristics

Problems studying asocial stage

Conflicting evidence on multiple attachment

Measuring multiple attachments

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What are the strengths of Schaffers stages of attachment?

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HIgh external validity

Longitudinal design

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What was the method used for Schaffers stages of attachment?

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60 babies
skilled working class families in Glasgow
Visited every month for the first year and again at 18 months

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What were Schaffers findings?

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25-32 weeks - 50% of babies showed separation anxiety towards primary caregiver

40 weeks - 80% specific attachment, 30% - multiple attachments

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What did Lorenze theorise?

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all organisms have a biological predisposition to form an attachment to one single object

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What did Lorenz do?

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Hatched Goslings either with mother or in an incubator
They proceeded to follow the first moving object they saw within 13-16 hours of hatching

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What did Harlow emphasise?

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The importance of contact comfort as newborn monkeys kept alone in a cage would usually die but would survive if given something like a cloth

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What was the procedure Harlow followed?
Findings?

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16 baby monkeys with 2 wire model mother, one of which was covered in cloth, milk dispensed by both

Preference for cloth-covered model and seeked for comfort when frightened
Critocal period - 90 days

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What are the issues with Lorenz study?

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lack of generalisability to humans

Counter evidence

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What are the strengths of Harlows study on rhesus monkeys?

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Theoretical value
- the importance of early relationships

Practical Value
- social workers understand risk factors in child neglect
- breeding programmes

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What is Learning Therory of attachment?

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Cupboard - Love - caregiver as a provider of fod and baby learns to love whoever feeds them?

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What are the primary and secondary drives of cupboard-love theory?

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Primary - need to satisfy hunder

Secondary - attachment to caregiver who feeds them

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What is Bowlby’s monotropic theory?

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infants require a qualitatively unique relationship to develop an internal working model

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What is the internal working model?

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Mental representation of our relationship with our primary caregiver which acts as a template for all other relationships - continuity hypotheses

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What is the critical period?

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A primary attachment must be made between 6 months - 2.5 years, otherwise an attachment will never be made and the child will suffer behavioural and emotional problems

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What is the cross cultural support for Bowlbys monotropic theory?

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Ganda tribe - one primary attachment, even when reared by multiple caregivers

Israeli Communal Farms - children raised by nurses (metaplets), spent 3 hours a day with parents. primary attachment was still towards biological mum

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How how is the importance of a primary attachment over-emphasised?

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uniqueness vs strength?

Thomas - a network of attachments may be more beneficial

Van Iijzendoon - a stable network of adults provides better care

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What supporting research is there for the internal working model?

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the continuity hypotheses suggests that internal working models should be passed through generations

Bailey
- 99 mothers with 1 year olds
- standard interview mother-grandmother
- observation mother-infant
results showed attachment type was generational

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4 criteria for Ainsworths SS

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separation anxiety
stranger anxiety
reunion behaviour
willingness to explore room

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Ainsworth SS method
lab experiment set routine time sampling 100 middle class american women & their infants
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Ainsworth SS findings
70% secure 15% insecure-avoidant 15% insecure-resistant
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How is the SS replicable?
high inter-observer reliability highly operationalised 4 specific criteria
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What is the supporting research to show reliability of classification for Ainsworths SS?
Waters 50 infants 12, 18 months Greatest consistency in reunion behaviour 48/50 in same category at 18 months
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what are the issues of Ainsworths SS?
Low population validity Categories not always applicable Low internal validity - objectivity - quality of attachment rather than child
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Secure attachment
comfortable with social interaction and intimacy healthy cognitive and emotional development mother consistently sensitive and responds to babies needs
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Insecure-resistant
both seek and reject emotional intimacy parents are inconsistent
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What is Bowlbys theory of maternal deprivation?
if a primary attachment is not formed within the critical period, one will never be formed and the child will be at risk for behavioural and emotional disorders
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Separation anxiety behaviours
Protest Despair Detachment
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Affectionless Psychopathy
an individual with no sense of shame or guilt
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44 thieves method
88 children referred to a guidance clinic 44 were thieves - 16 of which deemed affectionless psychopaths other 44 - control group Children and families interviewd to create a record of early childhood experiences Quasi experiment
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44 thieves findings
86% of affectionless psychopaths Experienced prolonged separation 17% of the other thieves had experienced such separation 4% of control group experienced frequent early separation
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What are the issues with the interviews used in 44 thieves?
Self-report - social desirability bias Retrospective data
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How was there researcher bias in the 44 thieves study?
Bowlby worked in the childrens home and knew who was in each group Conducted psychiatric experiments himself, created the affectionless psychopathy diagnosis
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44 thieves - privation vs deprivation
children moved around a lot and may have been suffering privation rather than deprivation
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Real-life application of Bowlbys theory of maternal deprivation
Hospital practices Childcare practices Political agenda - encourages working mothers guilt post WW2
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Background to Romanian Orphanages studies
1989 - plight of children in Romanian orphanages discovered Former president required women to have 5 children which many families simply couldn't afford
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How many orphans were there in Rutters adoption study
165 Romanian orphans
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Rutter finding (Romanian Orphanage) - adopted before 6 months
58 adopted before 6 months - normal development - IQ - 102
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What are the strengths of Romanian orphanage studies?
Policy changes to benefit children Lack of confounding variables Study cause and effect
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Weaknesses of Romanian orphange studies
Children not randomly allocated Effects could be due to poor conditions and not institutionalisation Lack of data on adult development
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How does attachment type link to bullying?
Secure - good relationships Avoidant - victims Resistant - bullies
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McCarthy - influence of early attachments on later life
40 dult women assessed as adults to establish their attachment type Secure - best romantic and platonic relationships Resistant - problems maintaining relationships Avoidant - issues with intimacy in romantic relationships
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Zimmerman -Findings - opposing evidence for the continuity hypotheses
Little relationship from infant to adult attachment type
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Rutter findings - 6-12 months
59 adopted between 6-12 months - disinhibited attachment - IQ - 86
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Rutter findings - 2-4 years
48 adopted between 2-4 years - disinhibited attachment - IQ - 77
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Who adopted the Romanian orphans? What age were they assessed?
British families adopted the orphans assessed development at age 4,6,11&15
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How is attachment often typified?
An infants desire to seek proximity to a particular individual and to display distress when seperated from this particular individual
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Types of caregiver-infant Interaction
Interactional synchrony Reciprocity Mimicking
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Interactional synchrony
The infant moves their bodies in time with the rhythm of the carer's spoken language, creating a form of turn-taking
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Reciprocity
Interactions lead to mutual behaviour between carer and infant, with both being able to produce responses from each other
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Mimicking
Infants imitate the facial expressions of the caregiver, suggesting an innate biological drive to form an attachment bond
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Further Communication between infant and caregiver
Bodily Contact Caregiverese
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Bodily Contact
Physical interactions help to form the attachment bond in the very early period, particularly immediately after birth
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Caregiverese
A form of modified vocal language used by adults as they interact with infants, which includes high-pitched, song-like vocals and are slow and repetitive
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Klaus + Kennel - impact of contact
Compared mothers who displayed extended physical contact vs mothers who only contacted when feeding in the 3 days following birth 1 month later - cuddle, more eye contact Effects still evident a year later
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Isabella - What attachment type demonstrated interactional synchrony in the first year of life?
infants with secure attachments demonstrated interactional synchrony during the first year of life
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Meltzoff and Moore - mimic
2-3 weeks displayed a tendency to mimic adults facial expressions and hand movements, indicating that mimicry is an innate ability that helps in the formation of attachment
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Papousek - caregiverese
The use of caregiverese was cross-cultural, suggesting that it is an innate device
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When does interactional synchrony start?
Initial consolidation of biological rhythms during pregnancy to the emergence of symbolic and often rhythmic exchanges between parent and child
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Asocial Stage
0-6 weeks Attention-seeking behaviour, not directed an anyone in particular
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Indiscriminate attachment
6 weeks - 7 months Similar to asocial - child seeks attention from anyone Preferences to familiar faces
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Specific attachment
7-11 months Primarily attached to main caregiver Separation anxiety
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Multiple Attachments
Attachment formed to other people once the primary attachment has been formed
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When does the asocial stage occur?
First few weeks
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When does indiscriminate attachment happen?
2-7 months
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When does specific attachment happen?
From 7 months
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When do multiple Attachments form?
29% of children developed a secondary attachment within 1 month of primary attachment in Schaffers study
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Imprinting
any kind of phase-sensitive learning that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behaviour
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What studies weaken learning theory?
Lorenz - Goslings imprint before food Harlow - preference for cloth mother, regardless of food Schaffer - sensitive response
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Continuity hypothesis
Securely attached babies will grow up to have secure relationships and vice versa
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Ainsworths findings about monotropy as a universal concept
Observed the Ganda tribe of Uganda where babies seemed to form one primary attachment, even when reared by multiple caregiver
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Fox reaserch into monotropy as a universal concept - Israeli communal farms
Children spent the majority of their day with nurses known as metaplets and spent 3 days with their biological parents, however children still formed a primary attachment bond to their biological mother
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Bailey - support for the continuity hypothesis of the internal working model
Assessed 99 mothers with their 1 year old babies on the quality of their attachment and their own mothers using a standard interview procedure. then assessed the mother-infant attachment by observation
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Interactional Synchrony
Mirroring what the other person is doing in terms of body and facial movements
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Reciprocity
Responding to the other with a similar action
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Indiscriminate attachment
Similar responses to all objects, with a preference towards social stimuli
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Discriminate attachment
A specific attachment is formed. high stranger and seperation anxiety
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5 Components of Bowlby's monotropic theory
Adaptive Social Releasers Critical Period Monotropy Internal Workin model
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% of affectionless thieves experienced separation before age 2
86% - 12/14
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2nd most common attachment in Van Ijzendoorn & Kroonberg
Insecure avoidant
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Behaviour elicited by an insecure resistant child on reunion
Both reject and seek comfort
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Romanian Orphan Studies demonstrate
Long term consequences are not as severe as Bowlby outlined in his critical period
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Key study into Caregiver Infant interactions
Meltzoff + Moore
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McCarthy - 'Love Quiz' procedure - influence of early attachment
Studied 40 adult women who were assessed as infants to establish their attachment type
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Hazam + Share - 'love quiz' findings
56% securely attached 25% insecure-avoidant 19% insecure-resistant
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Characteristics of a secure attachment found by Hazam + Share in the love quiz
Good relationships, both romantic and platonic
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characteristics of an avoidant attachment type according to Hazam + share 'Love quiz'
Struggle with intimacy
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characteristics of a resistant attachment type according to Hazam + Share 'Love quiz'
Struggle to maintain future relationships
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Weakness of caregiver-infant interactions
Many studies observing CG-I interactions show a similar pattern of behaviour. however, it is difficult to determine whether these actions are delioberate and have any special meaning
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Strengths of caregiver-infant Interaction observations
Controlled observation captures fine detail Application value
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Crotwell - application value of caregiver-infant interaction
10 minute interactional synchrony therapy with mothers on low-income and their infants, found a significant increase in interactional synchrony and attachment
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Meltzoff and Moore procedure
observed the beginnings of interactional synchrony in infants as young as 2 weeks old. an adult displayed 1 of 3 facial expressions or gestures Response was filmed and identified by independent observers
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What did Isabella find about interactional synchrony?
High levels of synchrony were associated with better quality attachments

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