Attachment

Question 1

Meltzoff and Moore

Answer 1

Observed significant association between caregiver and baby’s gestures + expressions. - interactional synchrony

Question 2

Isabella et al.

Answer 2

Assessed degree of synchrony relationship to quality of attachment of 30 mothers + babies
High synchrony -> better quality attachment

Question 3

What did Schaffer and Emerson study and find

Answer 3

studied attachment behaviours of babies
found that attachment behaviours change with age
3% father first attach
by 18 months 75% attached to father

Question 4

Rutter et al study of insitutionalisation

Answer 4

what extent good care compensate for poor experiences in institutions
Children adopted at later ages up to age 2 and 4,mean IQ by age 11 decreased later they were adopted
Children adopted after 6 months showed signs of disinhibited attachment(clingy to all adults)

Question 5

Lorenz

Answer 5

Imprinting (critical period otherwise don’t attach) - geese attached to and followed the first moving object they saw
geese incubator eggs followed him, control geese followed mother
Sexual imprinting - peacock reared in giant tortoise house - peacock showed courtship towards them in adulthood

Question 6

Grossman et al

Answer 6

Quality of attachment to MOTHER related to attachments formed in adolescence - Fathers attach not a important?
Quality of Father’s play related to quality of adolescence attachments
Father has diff role - play not emotional development

Question 7

What are Schaffer’s stages of attachment

Answer 7

Asocial stage - humans and inanimate objects
Indiscriminate attachment - pref w people
Specific attachment - show stranger and separation anxiety
Multiple attachments

Question 8

Field - role of the Father

Answer 8

Compared beh of primary and secondary fathers with primary mothers
Primary Father more smiling and imitating than secondary - behaviour important in establishing attachment not gender