Types of Attachment and the Strange Situation
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- Types of Attachment and the Strange Situation
- Type A: Secure Attachment (66%)
- Separation Anxiety: Not likely to cry at separation
- Stranger Anxiety: moderate avoidance, but friendly when mother is present
- Reunion behaviour: Enthusiastic and positive
- Type C: Insecure (ambivalent) resistant (12%)
- Separation Anxiety: Immediate and intense distress
- Stranger Anxiety: Ambivalent behaviour towards strangers
- Reunion behaviour: Seeks but rejects intimacy
- Type B: Insecure avoidant (22%)
- Separation anxiety: Little response
- Reunion behaviour: Unresponsive
- Stranger anxiety: avoid social interaction and intimacy with others
- Validity
- Only measures one relationship not something lodged in individual
- Primary attachment figure determines attachment type (monotropy)
- Reliabilty
- It is a subjective observation. However inter-rater reliability is used, comparing the ratings made by a panel of judges
- .94 agreement between raters. 1.00 would be perfect.
- It is a subjective observation. However inter-rater reliability is used, comparing the ratings made by a panel of judges
- Ethics
- 20% of the infants cried "desperately". Suggesting it is not ethically appropriate for infants
- Not meant to cause any more distress than ordinary life experiences (Ainsworth et al (1978)
- Type A: Secure Attachment (66%)
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