Evaluating the Strange Situation
- Created by: Nadia Morgaine Ullrich
- Created on: 05-12-12 18:51
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- Evaluating the Strange Situation
- Strengths:
- It has provided a means by which attatchment can be studied
- After classifying children using the **, their type can be correlated to other behaviours
- Techniques for older children have been developed from the **.
- Limitations
- Ethiics- is it acceptable to cause mild distress to infants? 20% of infants cried desperately during seperation episodes
- Validity: is the strange situation actually measuring what it intends to?
- Ecological Validity: is it too artificial to relate to real life behavior?
- Reliability: is the ** used in a constant consistent way?
- Demand Characteristics: people might change their behavior if they know they're being measured
- Main attachment figure: what if the mother isn't the main attachment figure?
- Strengths:
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