Attatchment - Paper 1 Flashcards
What is Attachment
Emotional bond with people around you
What is Reciprocity
A description of how two people interact. Caregiver-infant interaction is reciprocal on that both the caregiver and baby respond to each other signal s
Example of Reciprocity
Caregiver responding to a baby’s smile, such as saying something which makes the baby know that it can elicit something from this response
What can reciprocal interaction also be called
‘Turn Taking’
What is a Alert Phase
Signal which means that baby’s are ready for a spell of interaction
How often do mothers pick up on their babies alert phases and which study proved it?
2/3 of the time. Feldman and Eidman 2007
What can affect a mothers response to a Alert Factor
Stress
What is Active Involvement
Both babies and caregivers can initiate interactions between each other
What is Interactional Synchrony
‘the temporal co-ordination of micro-level social behaviour (Feldman 2007). It takes place when caregiver and baby interact in such a way that their actions and emotions mirror the other
At what age does a baby start their synchrony
2 weeks
Why is synchrony important for attachment
Develops their caregiver infant attachment.
Experiment which proves that synchrony is important for attachment
Russel Isabella eg al (1989) - tested 30 baby’s attachment with their mother. High levels of synchrony were associated with better quality mother baby attachment
How many babies in glagsgow baby study?
60
What happened during the glasgow baby study
Bbaies were studied in their own homes, every month for 12 ad then once again at 18 months.
How was reporting happened at the glasgow baby study
Self report - Diary kept by the mother
Researchers also interviews the mother with how the baby reacted.
The four stages of attachment
Asocial
Indiscriminate Attachment
Specific attachement
Multiple Attachment
When does the asocial stage of attachment occur?
0-8 weeks
What is the babies behaviour during the Asocial stage
Behaviour towards humans and objects are similar. Babies tend to show a preference for the company of familiar people and is more easily comforted by them
When does the Indiscriminate stage of attachment occur?
2-7 months
What is the babies behaviour during the Indsicriminate attachement
- More observable social behaviours
- prefers being around with human
- Still accept cuddles from anyone
- No stranger or separation anxiety
When does the Specific stage of attachment occur?
7-12 months
What is the babies behaviour during the specific attachement
- Shows signs attachment usally towards one person
- Start developing stranger anxiety
- Bond with a primary attachment figure
When does the Multiple attachments occur?
1 years+
What is the babies behaviour during the mutliple attachement
Extened there behaviour to more than one person. Clled a secondary attachment
Stranger anxiety
Feeling upset when around someone who they do not know
Seperation anxiety
Being away from the primary attachment figure causes distress
Who carried out the glasgow baby study
Schaffer and Emerson 1964
Limitations is the glasgow baby study
Mothers being the observers means they could be bias in their reporting.
Poor evidence in the Asocial stage
Young babies have poor co-ordination which means there reactions would be subtle and hard to observe.
Positives of the Glasgow baby study
Good external validity
And good generalizability
Attachment to Fathers according to Schaffer and Emerson
- Fathers were the sole attachment for 3% of cases
- 27% of cases, the father was the joint first attachment with the mother
- Fathers were more likely the second attachment
Grossman et al (2002) - Fathers role (what type of study was it)
Longitudinal study
Grossman et al (2002) - Fathers role (what were they trying to find out)
Quality of a relationship between parents and children from infancy to the teenager years.
Grossman et al (2002) - Fathers role (how manay participants??)
44 families
Grossman et al (2002) - Fathers role (What was the main difference between the mothers and fathers interaction?)
The mother was more based on survivial such as feeding and comfort
Father was more playful, challenging and interactive
Grossman et al (2002) - Fathers role ( What does it show)
- Early attachment is better with the mother
- Fathers role is less important in comparison
- Fathers role is more to do with Stimulation
Geiger (1996) - Fathers Role (What did it show?)
- Fathers have a different role to mothers
- Mum is associated with care and nurturing
- Dad is more fun.
Evaluation of Grossman et al (2002) - Fathers role
- Inconsistent results
- Traditional + social roles if Men and women
- Longitudinal study
Evaluation of Geiger (1996) - Fathers Role
- Different family structures
- Cultured based
Field (1978) - What happened?
Conducted research which compared the behaviours of primary caretaker mothers with primary caretakers fathers
Field (1978) - What did it show?
When a father becomes a primary attachment the tend to have ore ‘motherly’ behaviour (such as significantly more smiling)
Field (1978) - Evaluation
Women can be less nuturing
- social factors
Animal studies Of Attachment
Animal studies have looked at the formation of early bonds
who was Konrad Lorenz
A scientist who studies the behaviour of animals in their natural enviroment.
Lorenz (1935) - Animal studies Of Attachment (Method)
- 2 batches of equal goose eggs
- One control group with mother
- experimental group in incubator
Experimental group - Lorenz made sure he was the first thing they saw
Lorenz imitated mother duckling sounds
Maternal Deprivation
The emotional and intelligence consequences of separation between a child and his or her mother substitute.
What did Bowlby propose in regards to maternal deprivation
That continuous care from the mother to the child is essential for normal psychological development.
Maternal deprivation - What effects on development does this have? (2)
Intellectual development
Emotional development
Maternal deprivation - Intellectual development
- During the critical period they would experience delayed intellectual development’s characterised by an abnormally low IQ.
Maternal deprivation - Intellectual development (proven?)
- William GoldFarb 1947
- Found lower IQ in children who had reminded
Lorenz Findings
- Naturally hatched goslings followed the mother goose
- incubator goslings followed Lorenz
- Icubator goslings did not follow mother
- Lorenz found that imprinting had occurred
- CRITICAL PERIOD - 4-25 hours after hatching
- Proved to be irreversible
Loren - Conclusion (Animals in attachment)
- imprinting is a form of attachment that is exhibited by birds.
- they imprint onto the first large moving object they counter while hatching
Support for Lorenz
Guiton 1966 - Found that using chicks henpresented them a rubber glove to feed the, during the critical period. The chicks imprinted on the glove
- Suggests young animals imprint on any moving thing present during their critical period
Support for imprinting - Animal Attachment
- Hess 1958
- strongest response to imprinting occurs between 12-17 hours after hatching
- Lorenz and Hess believed that once imprint occurred it could not be reversed
Evaluation for imprinting - Animal attachment (Lorenz)
- Lorenz Stated that it is irreversible change in the nervous system
- Hoffman 1976 suggests that it is not irreversible
What was Harlow Study 1958 trying to find out?
To examine the extent to which contact, comfort and food influences attachment behaviour in baby monkeys
Harlow 1958 - Method
- Constructed two surrogate mothers
- One was a harsh monkey with wire
- One monkey was a soft towelling mother
- ## 16 monkeys used