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Evaluating the different theories of attachment.
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BY KURSHA PEARSON In this essay I will be evaluating the different theories of attachment. Attachment is a strong, long-lasting emotional tie or bond to a particular individual, usually the mother and psychologists believe that this attachment is important for later development. Most researchers believe that attachment develops through three stages. Two of the most influential accounts of these stages are by Rudolph Schaffer and Peggy Emerson (1964) and John Bowlby (1969). They called these stages the asocial stage or pre-attachment phase, indiscriminate attachments or attachments in the making and the final stage, specific attachments or clear cut attachments. In the first phase (asocial stage or pre attachment phase) Schaffer and Emerson thought that babies in this stage are not social and that they respond to people in the same way as they do to other things such as puppets or balloons and that they do not show any recognition to...
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