Attachment

Question 1

What is meant by ‘reciprocity’?

Answer 1

• interaction flows back and forth between caregiver and infant

Question 2

What is meant by ‘interactional synchrony’?

Answer 2

• infants react in time with the caregiver’s speech, resulting in ‘conversation dance’

Question 3

What is the pre-attachment/asocial phase?

Answer 3

• 0 to 3 months

- baby learns to separate people from objects, but has no strong preferences about who cares for it

Question 4

What is the indiscriminate/diffuse attachment phase?

Answer 4

• 6 weeks to 7 months
• infant begins to clearly distinguish and recognise different people
• still no strong preferences about who cares for it

Question 5

What is the discriminate/single attachment phase?

Answer 5

• 7 to 11 months
• infant becomes able to form a strong attachment with an individual
• avoids strangers

Question 6

What is the multiple attachment phase?

Answer 6

• from 9 months

- infant can form attachments to many different people