Stages of attachment

Question 1

What are the stages of attachment?

Answer 1

• asocial phase
• indiscriminable attachment
• specific attachment
• multiple attachment

Question 2

What is a social phase?

Answer 2

– birth to 3 months, infants become attracted to other humans at six weeks. They smile more faces than objects

Question 3

What is the indiscriminate stage?

Answer 3

3 to 7 months, influence begin to recognise familiar faces and will accept comfort from any adult.

Question 4

What is a specific attachment stage?

Answer 4

78 months, start to develop anxiety about strangers, become distressed away from one specific adult/primary attachment (65% of cases it’s the mother)

Question 5

What is a multiple attachment stage?

Answer 5

– nine months onwards, infant for multiple attachments with other people who they spent a lot of time with. For example grandparents and other children (these are secondary attachments)..

Question 6

What does SChaffer and Emerson do?

Answer 6

– 60 baby studied from Glasgow

– baby is visited every month for a year and then once again it’s 18 months

– mothers asked how their child behaves when separated and unfamiliar adults.

– babies start recognising familiar faces at the indiscriminate stage

– Babies developed stranger anxiety at the specific attachment stage.