Stages of Attachment

Question 1

What do Schaffer and Emerson support?

Answer 1

Stages of attachment.

Question 2

What do Schaffer and Emerson contradict?

Answer 2

Monotropic theory.

Question 3

Support for stages of attachment?

Answer 3

Schaffer and Emerson.

Question 4

Findings of Schaffer and Emerson?

Answer 4

Identified their four stages of attachment. Found that between 25-32 weeks, 50% of infants displayed separation anxiety to a primary attachment figure, usually the mother. By 40 weeks, 80% had a specific attachment, and 30% displayed multiple attachments.

Question 5

What does Van Ijzendoorn et al. contradict?

Answer 5

Stages of attachment.

Question 6

Contradictory evidence for stages of attachment?

Answer 6

Van Ijzendoorn et al.

Question 7

Describe Van Ijzendoorn et al.

Answer 7

Found that in collectivist cultures, some infants are able to form multiple attachments from much earlier ages, as they tend to be raised by their whole families.