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Question 1

Who carried out research on stages of attachment?

Answer 1

Schaffer and Emerson, 1964

Question 2

What did Schaffer and Emerson do?

Answer 2

Had 60 babies from Glasgow
Babies and mother were visited from home every month
Mothers were asked what kind of protest the child showed in everyday separations which measured the infants attachment

Question 3

What did Schaffer and Emerson find?

Answer 3

50% of the babies showed signs of serration anxiety between 25-32 weeks old
By 40 weeks 30% displayed multiple attachments

Question 4

What is the first stage of attachment?

Answer 4

Stage 1- Asocial stage

Babies behaviour between human and objects are similar

Question 5

What is the second stage of attachment?

Answer 5

Stage 2- Indiscriminate attachment
From 2-7 months babies displayed more observable social behaviour
Show preference for people rather then objects

Question 6

What is the third stage of attachment?

Answer 6

Stage 3- Specific attachment

From 7 months babies start to display anxiety t strangers

Question 7

What is the fourth stage of attachment?

Answer 7

Stage 4- Multiple attachment

They extend their attachment beyond one specific caregiver

Question 8

What did Lorenz do in his study?

Answer 8

Lorenz observed imprinting
Divided a group of eggs where half hatched with the mother and hand hatched in an incubator where they would see Lorenz as the first moving object

Question 9

What did Lorenz find out?

Answer 9

The incubator group followed Lorenz everywhere
there is. a critical period where the need to imprint- if this doe snot happen they will not attach themselves to a mother figure