Stages of Attachment + Role of the Father

Question 1

What’s the Asocial stage? 1

Answer 1

Similar responses to objects & people. Preference for faces/ eyes.

Question 2

What is the indiscriminate attachment phase?

Answer 2

• Preference for human company.
  -Ability to distinguish between people but comforted indiscriminately.

Question 3

What is the specific attachment phase?

Answer 3

• Infants show a preference for one caregiver,
  displaying separation and stranger anxiety.
  -The baby looks to particular people for security, comfort and protection.

Question 4

Multiple Attachment Phase

Answer 4

Attachment to multiple people

Question 5

What were Schaffer and Emersons findings from role of the father?

Answer 5

Schaffer and Emerson’s study showed how babies form multiple attachments around the age of 10 to 11 months.
-In the follow-up at 18 months, only 13% of babies had a single attachment whilst 31% had five or more attachments to grandparents, siblings and significant others.
- Secondary attachments seem to meet different needs for an infant or child.

Question 6

What are the characteristics of a father behaviour?

Answer 6

Fathers’ are more consistently involved in play than caretaking behaviours, and their play tends to be more stimulating and unpredictable than mothers, who tend towards comforting.

-Paquette (2004) found that fathers are more likely to encourage toddlers to take risks and to be brave during physical play than mothers.
- Fathers commonly structure talk around active play,
whereas a mother’s talk is primarily emotional, to soothe and reassure the infant.