🟡 Attachment - Stages of Attachment

Question 1

Acronym for stages

Answer 1

All infants say mum

Question 2

4 stages of attachment and time period

Answer 2

• asocial stage (0-6 weeks)
• indiscriminate attachments (6 weeks - 7 months)
• specific attachment (7 months +)
• multiple attachments (10/11 months +)

Question 3

Asocial stage

Answer 3

• infants produce similar responses to objects and people
• preference for faces/ eyes
• very young infants are asocial in that many kinds of stimulus produce favourable reaction

Question 4

Indiscriminate attachments

Answer 4

• enjoy human company
• respond equally to any caregiver
• get upset when an individual ceases to interact with the,
• infants smile more at familiar faces from 3 months

Question 5

Specific attachments

Answer 5

• infants show a preference for one caregiver
• infant looms to particular people for security, comfort and protection
• fear of strangers
• unhappiness when separated from a special person

Question 6

Multiple attachments

Answer 6

• infants become increasingly independent and forms several attachments
• attachments more likely to form with those who respond accurately to the infants signals not who spent more time with them

Question 7

Positives of research for stages of attachment

Answer 7

Good ecological validity
Longitudinal design = a research study where a sample of the population is studied at intervals to examine the effects of developmen

Question 8

Negatives of research for stages of attachment

Answer 8

Limited sample characteristics
Problem studying the asocial stage
Conflicting evidence on multiple attachments
If a baby gets distressed when someone leaves a room, doesn’t mean true attachment figure

Question 9

Evidence of conflicting

Answer 9

Bowbly 1969
Van ijendoorn et al 1993

Question 10

Bowlby

Answer 10

1969: stated a primary attachment must be formed before a baby can form multiple

Question 11

Van ijzendoorn

Answer 11

1993, found some babies develop multiple attachments from the outset. Culture-some cultures raise children collectively

Question 12

Schaffer and Emerson 1964

Answer 12

• 25/32 weeks old, 50% had separation anxiety
• 40 weeks old, 80% had specific attachment 30% had multiple attachments
• 18 months old, 75% had attachment to father and shown separation anxiety between both parents