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Outline and evaluate research into individual differences in attachment. Attachment is when you get a strong reciprocal, emotional bond between two people like with a mother and infant. The attachment acts as a basis for further emotional and psychological development. Shaffer and Emerson (1964) were the first to discover differences in attachment in their study of the development of attachments which they conducted to investigate how infants behaviour changes over time. They studied 60 infants from middleclass families in Glasgow. They observed the infants every 4weeks up until they reached 1yr old then again at 18months. They were conducted in the children's homes so that it was a natural environment making the results more valid. They looked at two measures to try and work out how strong the attachment was, these were stranger anxiety and separation anxiety. They concluded that specific attachments were generally formed around the 7month mark with multiple attachments...

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