Ainsworth Strange Situation
- Created by: Jennypix
- Created on: 08-10-15 21:17
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- Ainsworth(1978) Strange Situation
- 8 Stages
- 1. Parent and baby enter lab set up w/ toys and chairs.
- 2. Parent does not interact w/ baby; left to explore.
- 3. Stranger goes into room, talks to parent, approaches baby.. parent leaves.
- 4. First separation, parents left, stranger interacts.
- 5. Parent comes to comfort baby, stranger leaves.
- first reunion before second separation.
- 6. Parent leaves infant alone in room.
- 7. Stranger enters and tries to interact w/ baby again. Mother still absent.
- 8. Parent returns , greets & picks up baby. stranger quietly leaves.
- Types of Children Found
- Type A
- No Secure base
- No distress from stranger anxiety
- Plays alone - no separation anxiety
- No difference in reunion
- Type B
- Happily plays - mother secure base
- Moderately distressed from separation anxiety
- Moderately distressed from stranger anxiety
- Accepts comfort on Reunion
- Type C
- No exploring, very clingy to secure base
- Stranger anxiety - very distressed
- Separation anxiety - very distressed
- Reunion behaviour - not ready to accept comfort
- Type A
- 8 Stages
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