The strange situation (Ainsworth et al)
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- Created on: 26-03-18 19:46
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- THE STRANGE SITUATION (Ainsworth et al)
- AIM
- To assess the quality of child's attachment to their categiver
- PROCEDURE
- Research room - novel environment - encourages exploration
- 8 episodes
- designed to highlight certain behaviours
- 1. Use of parent as secure base
- 2. Stranger anxiety (x2)
- 3. Separation anxiety (x2)
- 4. Reunion behaviour (x2)
- care giver and stranger either leave or stay with the infant
- designed to highlight certain behaviours
- Video recorded what the infant is doing every 15 seconds
- Behavioural catergories
- Video recorded what the infant is doing every 15 seconds
- 1. proximity and contact- seeking behaviours
- 4. Contact and interaction-resisting behaviours
- 3. Proximity and interaction-avoiding behaviours
- 5. Search behaviours
- 2. Contact-maintaining behaviours
- Scored on a intensity score of 1-7
- FINDINGS
- Secure attachment
- 66%
- Explores environment
- Shows distress if seperated
- Friendly with strangers
- 66%
- Insecurely-avoidant
- 12%
- Little exploration
- Little distress if seperated
- Avoids mother when she returns
- Little distress if seperated
- Little exploration
- 12%
- Insecurely-resistant
- 22%
- Anxious when exploring
- Much distress if separated
- Unsure whether to approach mother upon return
- Much distress if separated
- Anxious when exploring
- 22%
- Secure attachment
- CONCLUSION
- Sensitive mothers are responsive to the child's needs and respond to their moods and feeling
- More likely to have securely attached children
- Mothers are less sensitive are likely to have insecurely attached children
- Sensitive mothers are responsive to the child's needs and respond to their moods and feeling
- AIM
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