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Stages of Attachment - Coggle Diagram

- - - - most observations (though not stranger anxiety) were made by parents during ordinary activities & reported to the researchers
        
        alternative would have been to have researchers present to record observations
        
        this may have distracted the babies/made them feel nervous
        
        means it's highly likely that participants behaved naturally while being observed
    - - HOWEVER
        
        issues with asking mothers to be 'observers'
        
        unlikely to be objective observers
        
        may have been biased in terms of what they noticed & what they reported
        
        e.g. may not have noticed when their baby was showing signs of anxiety/misremembered it
        
        means even if babies behaved naturally, their behaviour may not have been accurately recorded
  - - - validity measures used to assess attachment in asocial stage
        
        young babies have poor coordination & are fairly immobile
        
        if babies (less than 2 months) felt anxiety in everyday situations-may display this in a quite subtle, hard to observe way
        
        made it difficult for mothers to observe & report back to researchers on signs of anxiety & attachment in this age group
        
        means babies may actually be quite social but because of flawed methods - they appear to be asocial
  - - - practical application in day-care
        
        asocial & indiscriminate stages in day-care is likely to be straight forward as babies can be comforted by any skilled adult
        
        HOWEVER - Schaffer & Emerson's research tells us that day-care (especially starting day-care with an unfamiliar adult) may be problematic during specific attachment stage
        
        means parents use of day-care can be planned using Schaffer & Emerson's stages
  - - - Shaffer & Emerson based their stage account on a large-scale study with some good design features
      - only looked at 1 sample which had unique features in terms of current & historical context - 1960s working class Glasgow