Ainsworth's Strange Situation
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- Ainsworth's Strange Situation
- AO1
- Aim
- to assess the quality of a child's attachment to their caregiver
- Procedure
- 5 categories
- proximity seeking
- exploration and secure base behaviour
- stranger anxiety
- separation anxiety
- response to reunion with care-giver
- 7 episodes
- 5 categories
- Findings
- 3 types of attachment
- Secure
- Insecure-avoidant
- Insecure-resistant
- 3 types of attachment
- Conclusions
- Insecure-avoidant
- happy to explore, no secure base
- no seperation or stanger anxiety
- does not require comfort at reunion
- Insecure-resistant
- less exploration, seeks proximity
- considerable stranger and seperation anxiety
- resists comfort on reunion
- Secure
- moderate stranger and seperation anxiety
- happy to explore but seeks proximity
- requires and accepts comfort on reunion
- Insecure-avoidant
- Aim
- AO3
- predictive validity
- good inter-rater reliability
- culture-bound
- temperament may be a comfounding variable
- there may be other attachment types
- AO1
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