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Aim |
Observed babies and their interactions with those around them. They concluded that the development of attachment could be divided into specific stages. |
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Method |
60 babies from working class of Glasgow, every 4 weeks for a year. Interviews were onducted with mothers, including who the infants smiled at, responded to and who caused distress. |
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Variables |
They measured: Separation anxiety- hoe distressed they were when separated from main caregiver Stronger anxiety- distress shown by child was left alone with stranger. |
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Findings |
Specific attachments 50% of infants between 25 and 32 weeks. Multiple attachments began after first attachments was formed. By 18 months 31% had five more attachments |
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Conclusion |
Human attachment development in four stages: Asocial Indiscriminate Specific attachment Multiple attachment |
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Evaluation |
:) babies were observed in own homes (natural environment) so we can assume it has high ecological validity; can be generalised to real world. :( data was collected by direct observation by the mother. They could mean it could be prone to bias and inaccuracy. :( they were large individual differences when attachments formed. This added uncertainty to the process of attachment formation being exclusively biological. |
