role of father

• Geiger (1996) showed fathers' play interactions are more exciting and pleasurable than those of mothers
• Fathers are more nurturing than mothers in their interactions with children.

  False
• What behaviors do fathers adopt when they become the primary caregiver?

  Nurturing behaviors
• Research has discovered that men's brains do not register a baby's cry
• Women are biologically predisposed to be the primary attachment figure due to hormonal differences.
• What positive effects do close relationships with fathers have on children's behavior?

  Less behavioral issues
• Grossman found that fathers as secondary attachment figures have an important role in their children's development
• Children in single-parent or same-sex families develop differently from children with fathers.

  False
• What type of play interactions did Geiger (1996) find fathers engaged in more than mothers?

  Exciting play
• Fathers' primary role is to respond to their children's emotional needs.

  False
• Match the research or concept with its description:

  Schaffer & Emerson ↔️ Attachment to father by 18 months

  Geiger ↔️ Father as a playmate

  Biological differences ↔️ Hormones affect primary attachment

  Positive relationships with fathers ↔️ Improved child behavior
• Schaffer's stages of attachment include specific, asocial, and multiple stages.
• Schaffer and Emerson (1964) found that babies first attach to their mother around the age of 7 months.
• By what age did 75% of infants in Schaffer and Emerson's study form an attachment to their father?

  18 months