A01
Ainsworth conducted strange situatiob to find attachment styles: secure, insecure avoidant, insecure resistant; continuity hypothesis and strange situation highly influential in aiding hazen and shavers love quiz to show childhood influence on relationships
Hazen+shaver love quiz findings: found adult style of love reflected childhood attachment styles shown in infants(strange sit.); printed in rocky mountains newspaper in america; analysed first 620 replies; ages 14-82; questionnaire-asked about childhood attachments and current/recent romantic relationships; affectionate,caring mother=happy, friendly in future; cold, rejecting/unresponsive mother=fear of closeness/commitment, jealous in future; unfair.inconsistent mother= obsessive / extreme passion/jealousy, desire to 'merge' with partner in future
A02
- self report method used- subjective,more incline to lie and present false results due to nature of topic, social desirability -present themselves in best possible light, lowers internal validity, lowers overall support
- love quiz based on retrospective data - looking back on childhood, may make something up or merely forget, lowers internal validity and limits overall support for this theory
- culture bias- based in america [western culture], can't generalise to non western cultures, first understand norms and values to make valid interpretations of their relationships
- could also use: population validity, individual diff, sample bias, no qualitative data
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