Schaffer's stages of Attachment

• Schaffer's stages of attachment


  A theory describing the development of attachment in infants
• Young babies in the asocial stage

  • Have poor coordination
  • Are fairly immobile
• If babies less than 2 weeks old felt anxiety in everyday situations they might have displayed this in quite subtle, hard-to-observe ways
• This made it difficult for the mothers to observe and report back to the researchers on signs of anxiety and attachment in this age group
• This means the babies may actually be quite social but, because of flawed methods, they appear to be asocial