Attachment

• Reciprocity


  Develops around 3 months (Feldmen 2007), refers to when baby/mother responds to the other and elicits a response from them. Babies + mothers spend a lot of time interacting with each other. Mothers generally pick up and respond to infant alertness.
• Mothers generally pick up on and respond to infant alertness
• Internchenal synchrony takes place when mother and infant interact in such a way
• Research support


  • Visited babies once a month for a go then again
  • Studied the attachment behaviours of babies
• Babies


  • GO babies from Glow (±MF) from skilled working class
  • Protest their helps displayed in separations (to 18 months, parents locked to keep any of the kind of measure separation anxiety)
  • Also showed stronger avoidance by measuring response to unfamiliar adults
• Meltzoff +Moore (1997)


  Attachment to the caregivers who are most interactive
• 60% of babies showed separation anxiety (usually mum)
• By 40 weeks, 50% of babies had specific attachments, 30% multiple
• Stages of attachment formation


  1. Asocial (0-6 weeks) - basic interactions

  2. Discriminative (2-7 months) - show preference for familiar people

  3. Specific attachment (7-12 months) - show separation anxiety, stronger attachment to primary caregiver

  4. Multiple attachments - shortly after formation of primary attachment, secondary attachments form