Ainsworth's Strange Situation
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- Ainsworth's Strange Situation
- Evaluation
- Real World application
- Circle of Security project
- Teaches caregivers to better understand signals of distress by infant.
- % of securely attached infants rose from 32 to 40
- Teaches caregivers to better understand signals of distress by infant.
- Circle of Security project
- High reliability observations
- Agreed on by judges at Inter-observer reliability.
- 0.94 out of 1 rating.
- Agreed on by judges at Inter-observer reliability.
- Low internal validity
- does it merely just measure the quality of a relationship?
- attachment type largely valid to that one person in the experiment.
- does it merely just measure the quality of a relationship?
- Fourth type of attachment may have been overlooked by Ainsworth
- Main and Solomon observed over 200 Strange situation vidoes
- Identified a Type D- insecure disorganised
- Lack of consistent patterns or behaviours
- Identified a Type D- insecure disorganised
- Main and Solomon observed over 200 Strange situation vidoes
- Cultural Bias
- Only takes into account the western culture
- Which is very individualistic.
- Only takes into account the western culture
- Real World application
- Ainsworth's Strange Situation-AO1
- Procedure
- Research involved a 9x9 room marked off into 16 squares.
- The procedure involved 8 step procedure.
- Parents leaves, infant plays, stranger offers comfort if needed.
- Stranger enters & talks to parents
- Parent returns, greet infant, offers comfort if needed, stranger leaves.
- Parent sits. Infants plays.
- Stranger enters offers comfort.
- Parent and infant play
- Parent leaves infant alone.
- Parent returns, greets infant, offers comfort.
- Infants between 9-18 ages of month
- Infants behaviour was observed, in response to
- Reunion with the caregiver
- Stranger anxiety
- Separation anxiety
- Systematically test nature of attachment.
- Findings
- Three types of attachment types were found.
- Insecure avoidant (22%)
- High willingness to explore. Low stranger anxiety. Indifferent separation anxiety. Avoids contact at reunion.
- Secure(66%)
- High willingness to explore. Moderate stranger anxiety. Easy to soothe. Enthusiastic at reunion.
- Insecure Resistant (12%)
- Low willingness to explore. High stranger anxiety. Distressed at separation. seeks and reject comfort at reunion.
- Insecure avoidant (22%)
- Three types of attachment types were found.
- Procedure
- Evaluation
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