Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Schaffer and Emerson
- Stages of Socialisation
- Pre-attachment Stage -0 to 3
months old. Predisposed to attach
to any stimuli.
- Also known as Asocial
- Indiscriminate Stage - 3 to 7
months. Infants can distinguish
between familiar and unfamiliar
people. Happy to be comforted by anyone
- Discriminate attachment stage - 7 to 9
months. Can distinguish between their
care and strangers. Will show separation
anxiety
- Multiple attachments - 9 months
onwards. The infant makes multiple
attachments
- Also known as Specific
Attachment Stage
- Close emotional relationship between
two persons, characterised by mutual
affection and a desire to maintain
proximity
- Studied 60 babies from
Glasgow in the first 18
months of life. Observed
once a month a home.
- Known as the 'Glasgow Babes'
- Development of attachment was
identified as the baby showing
separation anxiety when left by
caregiver
- Attachment develop in sequence
- Mothers who were most sensitive to their child's
needs had securely attached children.