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stages of attachment L2
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Who conducted the study on stages of attachment?
Schaffer
and
Emerson
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What did Schaffer and Emerson find about fathers as attachment figures?
Fathers
are less likely to be
primary
attachment figures
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At what age were the infants studied by Schaffer and Emerson?
From
0 to 18 months
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What did Lamb (1977) report about fathers and attachment?
Little
relationship
between
time
spent
and
attachment
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What biological reason is given for fathers being less likely to be primary attachment figures?
Oestrogen
underlies caring behavior
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What is the first stage of attachment according to Schaffer and Emerson?
Social
attachment
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What do infants initially produce in response to objects?
Similar
responses to
all
objects
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What stimuli help infants develop social attachment?
Stimuli
like a
smiling face
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What is the second stage of attachment?
Presocial stage
of attachment
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At what age do infants become more social according to Schaffer and Emerson?
Around
two months
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What do infants prefer during the presocial stage?
Human company
over
inanimate
objects
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What is the third stage of attachment?
Specific attachment
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At what age do infants show stranger anxiety?
About
7 months
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How do fathers typically engage with their children according to Geiger (1996)?
Playfully
engage
with
their
children
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What do mothers tend to do differently than fathers according to Geiger (1996)?
Mothers
read
stories
to their children
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What did Schaffer and Emerson find about infants with sensitive mothers?
They had better
problem-solving skills
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What is the fourth stage of attachment?
Multiple
attachments
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What happens after the main attachment is formed?
Infants
develop
secondary
attachments
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What is a potential issue with the data collected by Schaffer and Emerson?
It may be seen as
unreliable
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Why might there be a systematic bias in Schaffer and Emerson's study?
Based on
mothers' reports
of behavior
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What demographic did Schaffer and Emerson's sample come from?
A
working-class
population
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How might parental care have changed since the 1960s?
More
children
cared for
outside
the home
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What percentage of infants had multiple attachments by six months?
78%
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What might happen if a similar study were conducted today?
The results might be
different
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