Stages of Attachment

Schaffer & Emerson

infants 5 weeks - 1 years old, visited every 4 weeks

tested separation in 7 everyday situations, also stranger

Stage 1

Indiscriminate attachment

Stage 2

Stage 3

Beginnings of attachment

Discriminate attachment

Multiple attachments

Comfortable with both social & inanimate objects

Familiar/

unfamiliar people

Primary attachment, stranger, separation anxiety

Month after Primary, Secondary, separation

Evaluation

Cohn

BIAS

Sagi

CULTURE

LIED