ATTACHMENT : Stages Of Attachment

Question 1

What did Schaffer and Emerson study

Answer 1

attachment behaviours of babies

Question 2

Studying attachment behaviours led Schagger and Emerson to?

Answer 2

Develop an account of how attachment behaviours in babies change as they get older

Question 3

How many stages of attachment are there

Answer 3

4

Question 4

stage the 4 stsages of atthemtn

Answer 4

asocial stage
indiscriminate attachment
specific attachment
multiple attachments

Question 5

First stage is called

Answer 5

Asocial Stage

Question 6

ASOCIAL STAGE - in a babies first few eeks of life its behaviour towards humans and innanimate objects is

Answer 6

fairly similar

Question 7

ASOCIAL STAGE - did schaffer and emerson believe babies behaviour was totally asocial

Answer 7

no

Question 8

ASOCIAL STAGE - why did schaffer and emerson not believe attachment was entirkey asocial

Answer 8

even at this stage babies showed signs they prefer to be with people

Question 9

ASOCIAL STAGE - babies tend to show a prefernece for ?

Answer 9

company of familiar people

Question 10

ASOCIAL STAGE - whats significant about babies showing prefernece for company of familiar people

Answer 10

they are more easily comforted by them

Question 11

ASOCIAL STAGE - at this stage a baby is forming bonds wit * and what does this do ?

Answer 11

certain people which form the basis of later attchments

Question 12

Stage 2 is called

Answer 12

Indiscriminate attachment

Question 13

INDISCRIMINATE ATTACHMENT - How old are babies in indiscirimante attachment

Answer 13

2-7months

Question 14

INDISCRIMINATE ATTACHMENT - What do babies display more

Answer 14

obvious and observable social behaviours

Question 15

INDISCRIMINATE ATTACHMENT- Babies show a clear prefernece for

Answer 15

being with other humans rather than inanimate objects

Question 16

INDISCRIMINATE ATTACHMENT - babies recognise and prefer

Answer 16

company of familiar people

Question 17

INDISCRIMINATE ATTACHMENT however at this stage what do babies accept

Answer 17

cuddles and comfort from anyone

Question 18

INDISCRIMINATE ATTACHMENT - what do babies not show

Answer 18

seperation anxiety when caregiver leaves prescence

stranger anxiety - as they can accept cuddles and comfort form anyone} ask miss sweeney

Question 19

What is Stage 3

Answer 19

Specific Attachment

Question 20

What age does specific attachment start from

Answer 20

from around 7 months

Question 21

What happens in specific attachment

Answer 21

majority of babies show classic signs of attachment towards a particular person

Question 22

what are the classic signs of attachment

Answer 22

stranger anxiety

seperation anxiety

Question 23

When a baby shows the classic signs of attachment they are said to have formed

Answer 23

a specific attachment

Question 24

What is a primary attachment figure

Answer 24

the person with whom the attachment is formed

Question 25

tell me important things about the primary attchment figure

Answer 25

not necessarily who child spends most time with but offers the most interaction responds to baby's signal with most skill/ sensitive to the babies needs

Question 26

what % of cases is the primary attachment figure the babies mother

Answer 26

65

Question 27

Stage 4 is called

Answer 27

Multiple Attachments

Question 28

What happens in stage 4

Answer 28

shortly after showing atrtahcment behaviour towards one person they extend this behaviour to multiple attahcments - other people they regularly spend time with babies show classical signs of attachment to other people they reguraly spend time with

Question 29

What are secondary attachments

Answer 29

when a baby extends attachment behaviour towards other people they regularly spend time with

Question 30

some children formed secondary attachments within how long of formin a specific attachment

Answer 30

within a month

Question 31

What % of children fromed secondary attachments within a month of forming a specifc attahcment

Answer 31

29%

Question 32

By what age do most babies form multiple attachments

Answer 32

1

Question 33

What did Schaffe + Emy base their theiry on

Answer 33

observational study of formation of early infant attachments

Question 34

What was the number of the smaple

Answer 34

60 babies 31 -boys 29- girls

Question 35

Where was the sample from

Answer 35

Glasgow

Question 36

What class where the majority of the sample size/ familiesform

Answer 36

working class

Question 37

outline the procedure of schaffer and emerson research

Answer 37

researchers vsited babies and mother in their own homes every month for the first year and then again at 18 motnhs researchers asked mums Q about kind of protests their babies showed in 7 everyday situations e.g adult leaving room - seperation anxiety - this was designed to measure babies attahcment

Question 38

outline findigns of schaffer and emerson esearch

Answer 38

they identified 4 distinct stages in the development of infant attachment behaviour which make up their dtage thoeyr

Question 39

eval good external vailidty

Answer 39

has good EV most of the obsv were made by parents during eeryday practices and reported to the researchers the alterative would have been to have research at present to record obsv . this might have distracted babies or made him feel anxious this means it is highly likely that the particpants behaved naturally whilst being observed and that the results can be generalised to everyday situations

Question 40

evakl - counterpoit ev

Answer 40

on the other hand issues w asking mums to be observers as they are unlikely to be obj may have been biased in terms of whatthey noticed and what they reported for example they amy not have noticed wehn their baby was showing signs of anxiety or may have misremebered it this means that even if babies behave naturally their behaviour may not have been accuractley recorded

Question 41

eval - problems studying asocial satge

Answer 41

one limitation of stages is validity of meausre used to asssess attachment in the asocial stage young babies lack coord and are fialrly immobile if babies less than 2 months old felt anxiety in everyday situations they might have displayed this in a subtle hard to observe ways this may have made it difficult for mums to obsere and report back to researchers on signs of anxiety and attachment in this age group this means babaies may be quite social but becuase of flawed methods they appear to be asocial

Question 42

real world applications

Answer 42

strenght - practical applications in day care in asocial and indiscrimante attach ment stages day care is likely to be straightforward however schaffer and emerson research tell us day care , especially *starting* with an unfamiliar