The Role of the Father

Question 1

What did Schaffer and Emerson find?

Answer 1

75% of infants from their study formed a secondary attachment to their father by 18 months.
29% doing so. within a month of forming a primary attachment demonstrated by separation anxiety

Question 2

What did Schaffer and Emersons findings suggest?

Answer 2

The father is important, but us unlikely to be the first. person to which. the child develops an attachment to

Question 3

What did Tiffany Field do?

Answer 3

She observed interactions between the infant and primary caregiver and she found no matter gender the caregiver was more attentive towards the infant and spent more time holding and smiling at them

Question 4

What did Tiffany Field’s findings suggest?

Answer 4

Although mothers are expected to be the primary caregiver this isn’t always the case

Question 5

Give a - (LOFA)

Answer 5

Lack of agreement over the extent of the influence of the father as the PCG. MacCallum and Golombok demonstrated that children growing up in homosexual of single-parent families weren’t different to those in heterosexual families. If the father was so crucial in the development of attachment. the findings wouldn’t be expected

Question 6

Give a - (GPCG)

Answer 6

The gender of the primary caregiver is dictated by society, women are expected to be caring and sensitive and have higher levels of oestrogen and less testosterone. Suggesting that there’s social and biological constraints on the PCG

Question 7

Give a - (RPCGSS)

Answer 7

research in importance of PCG is socially sensitive, abnormalities in development are blamed on parents. Means that a single mother. or father may be pressured return to work at a later point in order to increase the likelihood their children forms a secure attachment