| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is the name of stage 1? | Indiscriminate attachment | 84%
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| Who conducted the study on the stages of attachment? | Schaffer and Emerson | 81%
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| What are the main features of the beginning of attachment stage? (HINT: The most distinctive feature of this phase) | Become more social / General sociability / Enjoyment of being with people | 78%
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| What is the name of stage 4? | Multiple attachment | 78%
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| What age is the infant during stage 3? | By 7 months | 75%
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| What percentage of infant's first specific attachment were with their FATHERS in the study? | 3% | 72%
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| What is the name of stage 3? | Discriminate attachment | 59%
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| What two types of anxiety develops in the discriminate stage? | Stranger anxiety | 56%
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| What age is the infant during stage 2? | Around the age of 4 months | 53%
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| AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of the stages of attachment research? | Biased sample - The sample was from the working class population. | 53%
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| What two types of anxiety develops in the discriminate stage? | Separation anxiety | 50%
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| Who has the infant formed an attachment with during the discriminate stage? | Their primary attachment figure | 44%
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| What is the role of father according to Geiger (1996)? | A father is an exciting playmate whereas the mother is conventional and nurturing. | 41%
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| When was the study on the stages of attachment conducted? | 1960s | 34%
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| What is supposedly the BIOLOGICAL reason mothers are more sensitive than fathers? | Oestrogen | 34%
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| What hormone elicits caregiving behaviour? (HINT: It was previously thought that only women had it but recent research has shown men can produce it.) | Oxytocin | 28%
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| What percentage of infant's first specific attachment were with their MOTHERS in the study? | 65% | 25%
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| What age is the infant during stage 1? | From birth until about 2 months | 25%
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| What percentage of infants had formed an attachment with their father by 18 months old? | 75% | 22%
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| After ONE month of forming their first specific attachment, what percentage of infants had another attachment to someone else in the study? | 29% - This could be the other parent, a sibling, a grandparent or other relatives. | 19%
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| What are the main features of the beginning of attachment stage? | Can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar people | 16%
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| What does the infant show a preference to at the end of the indiscriminate stage? | Social stimuli, such as smiling faces | 16%
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| When does the infant develop stage 4? | Very soon after the main attachment is formed | 16%
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| After SIX month of forming their first specific attachment, what percentage of infants had another attachment to someone else in the study? | 78% | 13%
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| What is the name of stage 2? | Beginning of attachment | 13%
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| How does an infant develop a relationship during the indiscriminate stage? | Reciprocity and interactional synchrony | 13%
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| What is supposedly the CULTURAL/SOCIAL reason mothers are more sensitive than fathers? | Gender stereotypes / Spend more time at work | 9%
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| What did Frodi (1978) find about the role of the father as a primary attachment figure? | There was no difference in the physiological responses of men and women when shown a video of a baby crying. | 6%
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| AO3: What did Field (1978) find about the role of the father? | Fathers were more playful than mothers - After comparing mothers and fathers interactions with 4 month old infants, they observed that fathers engaged more in game playing but held the infant less. | 3%
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| AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of the stages of attachment research? | Ethnocentric bias - This research is based on individualist cultures and shouldn't be generalised to collectivist cultures. | 3%
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| AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of the stages of attachment research? | Inflexible - The model is in a fixed order so any infant that doesn't follow the norm may be classed as abnormal. | 3%
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| AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of the stages of attachment research? | Lacks temporal validity - Parenting has changed since the 1960s. | 3%
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| What are the main features of the beginning of attachment stage? (HINT: There's no stranger anxiety yet so...) | Easily comforted by everyone | 0%
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| AO3: What did Field (1978) find that primary caregiver fathers did more than secondary caregiver fathers? | Primary fathers engaged in significantly more smiling, reciprocity, and interactional synchrony than secondary fathers. | 0%
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| AO3: What are the main STRENGTHS of the role of the father? | Proof of its importance - Children with secure attachments to their fathers have better relationships with peers, less problematic behaviour, and are more able to regulate their emotions. | 0%
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| AO3: What are the main LIMITATIONS of the stages of attachment research? | Unreliable - Data is based on self-reports from mothers. | 0%
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