A-level Attachment up to Schaffer's stages

Attachment can be defined as...

• A two-way emotional bond

• A persons un-reciprocal love for someone

• When an infant and a caregiver imitate each other

An infant is anyone up to the age of...

• 6 months

• 1 year

• 2 years

• 5 years

Which key term is this referring to: 'A two-way or mutual process where each party responds to the others signals'?

• Reciprocity

• Interactional synchrony

Which key term is this referring to: 'when the child points the mother looks'?

• Reciprocity

• Interactional synchrony

Meltzoff and Moore found that children as young as 2 or 3 weeks old copied the researcher, this is known as...

• Reciprocity

• Interactional synchrony

Schaffer and Emerson argued that in 65% of cases the _________ was the primary attachment figure.

• Mother

• Father

• Grandparent

• Sibling

In 75% of cases the child had formed a secondary attachment to the father by the age of ___ months.

• 12

• 14

• 16

• 18

When the father walked away from the child, the child cried, this is evidence of...

• Reunion behaviour

• Separation anxiety

• An attachment

• Strange anxiety

Who said the role of the father was a playmate?

• Schaffer and Emerson

• Gottesman

• Lamb

• Field

Which of the following is a social reason for why mothers might be the primary attachment figure?

• They breastfeed their child

• They release oxytocin at birth

• They have more parental leave

• They spend more time with the child