Stages of attachment

Question 1

Who created them

Answer 1

Schaffer

Question 2

What are the stages?

Answer 2

Asocial
Indiscriminate
Specific
Multiple

Question 3

Asocial

Answer 3

0-6 weeks
low seperation protest
everything produces favourable reaction

Question 4

Indiscriminate

Answer 4

6weeks - 7months
enjoy company
comforted easily by CG
no seperation or stranger anxiety

Question 5

Specific

Answer 5

7-9months
high protest in seperation from PCG
wariness of strangers

Question 6

Multiple

Answer 6

10months onwards
attach to others + form secondary attachment

Question 7

Schaffer + Emerson method

Answer 7

60 infants from Glasgow
every 4 weeks until 12 months + 18months
Separation anxiety = ask mothers about behaviour during everyday separation e.g. adult leaving room
Stranger anxiety = ask mothers questions about anxiety response to unfamiliar adults

Question 8

Schaffer + Emerson findings

Answer 8

low relationship between time w/ them + attachment
most had 1 main attachment
39% attached to someone other than who fed + bathed them
29% had multiple attachments @ 1 month
78% had multiple attachmnet @ 6 months

Question 9

Asocial age AO3

Answer 9

at age where babies don’t do a lot so how can we observe + judge congitions

Question 10

Culture differences

Answer 10

collectivist cultures
- do all attach to 1 before multiple

Question 11

Distressed doesn’t mean attached

Answer 11

BOWLBY - children distressed when playmate leaves, doesn’t mean they are attached but assessment would say otherwise