The Foundation Of Attachments

Question 1

How are attachments formed ?

Answer 1

• consistent care
• skin to skin contact
• quality time
• reciprocity
• attention
• maternal instinct
• sympathy
• feeding
• proximity
  -eye to eye contact
• mimicatiom

Question 2

What did Schaffer and Emerson examine and when

Answer 2

In 1964 they examined how attachments are formed in research

Question 3

Where did Schaffer and Emerson conducted their research

Answer 3

Glasgow

Question 4

How did Schaffer and Emerson conduct their research

Answer 4

Using interviews and observations over 12 months

Question 5

What are the 4 stages of attachment

Answer 5

1) indiscriminate attachment- A social
2) beginning of attachment- indiscriminate
3) discriminate attachment- specific
4) multiple attachments

Question 6

Describe stage 1 of attachment

Answer 6

Occurs from birth to around 2 months
A social
Produce similar responses to animate inamimate and people
Start to show social preference to certain stimuli
Content around people
Key to attachment: intersectional synchrony and reciprocity

Question 7

Describe stage 2 of attachment

Answer 7

Occurs around 2-4 months
Beginning of attachment
More social
Prefer human company rather than inanimate
Can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar people

Question 8

Describe stage 3 of attachment

Answer 8

Occurs around 4-7 months
Specific
Formed attachment to one primary attachment figure
Shows separation anxiety, joy at reunion amd stranger anxiety

Question 9

Describe stage 4 of attachment

Answer 9

Occurs from 7-12 months
Starts to develop multiple attachments with consistent figures such as siblings or childcare providers or grandparents
Starts to have separation anxiety from multiple attachment figures

Question 10

Benefits to using the stages of attachment

Answer 10

• can be applied to all infants due to progressing being due to age
• supporting evidence from Schaffer and Emerson
• identifies behaviours that develop with age
• can be used to assess development and can identify children hitting milestones

Question 11

Cons to using the stages of attachment

Answer 11

• suggests a one size fits all approach
• ignores individual differences that could affect attachment e.g premature babies
• hard to test for behaviours due to being 7 stages
• limited to 4 stages( reductionist)
• deterministic