Ainsworth's Strange Situation
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 02-05-19 16:28
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- Ainsworth's Strange Situation
- Aims
- To test stranger anxiety, separation anxiety and the secure base
- To test the quality of attachments
- Procedure
- 5 categories recorded on a scale from 1-7
- Seeking proximity; maintaining contact; avoiding interaction; resisting interaction; search behaviours
- 106 infants observed
- Findings
- 15% were insecure-avoidant
- 70% were securely attached
- 15% were insecure-resistant
- Evaluation
- Artificial set-up as laboratory-based; lacks ecological validity
- Difficult to generalise as sample from same area and age group
- Sample bias and lacks population validity
- Standardised procedures and high control means that it is easy to replicate to check reliability
- Multiple observers increases inter-rater reliability
- Unethical as unnecessarily causes stress to children
- Focusses too much on infants' behaviour and not the mothers'
- Insecure-avoidant
- Willing to explore; low stranger anxiety; no separation anxiety; avoid contact on return
- Securely attached
- Keen to explore; high stranger anxiety; easy to calm; enthusiastic on return
- Insecure-resistant
- Unwilling to explore; high stranger anxiety; high separation anxiety; seek and reject contact on return
- Aims
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