Ainsworth's strange situation

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  • Created by: AK
  • Created on: 10-04-18 10:46
Procedure
5 behaviours to judge attachment - proximity seeking, exploration and secure-base behaviour, stranger anxiety, seperation anxiety, response to reunion. CH+CA enter, explore, S enter, CA leaves, CA returns S leaves, CA leaves, S returns, CA returns
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Findings
Secure attachment - explore,regularaly go back to caregiver with moderate stranger and seperation anxiety. Insecure-avoidant - explore,don't seek proximity,no S+S anxiety. Insecure resistant explore less, greater proximity, big S+S anxiety
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Evaluation - support for validity
Babies assessed as secure typically go on to have better outcomes in many areas. Insecure-resistant had worst outcomes. This is evidence for the validity as it can explain subsequent outcomes
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Evaluation - good reliability
Very good inter-rater reliability (different observers agree). Controlled conditions and behavioural categories are easy to observe. Bick et al. found agreement of 94%
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Evaluation - the test may be culture-bound
Cultural differences in childhood experiences means children respond differently, caregivers respond differently. Takahashi noted test doesn't work in Japan because Japanese mothers are rarely seperated from babies
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Evaluation - what does the strange situation measure?
Measures a child's responses to anxiety. Kagan suggested temperament is a more important influence than attachment, meaning temperament may be a confounding variable
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Evaluation - there is at least one more attachment type
Main and Solomon pointed out a minority of children display attachments that don't fit Ainsworth's categories - disorganised attachment
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Secure attachment - explore,regularaly go back to caregiver with moderate stranger and seperation anxiety. Insecure-avoidant - explore,don't seek proximity,no S+S anxiety. Insecure resistant explore less, greater proximity, big S+S anxiety

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Findings

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Babies assessed as secure typically go on to have better outcomes in many areas. Insecure-resistant had worst outcomes. This is evidence for the validity as it can explain subsequent outcomes

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Very good inter-rater reliability (different observers agree). Controlled conditions and behavioural categories are easy to observe. Bick et al. found agreement of 94%

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Card 5

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Cultural differences in childhood experiences means children respond differently, caregivers respond differently. Takahashi noted test doesn't work in Japan because Japanese mothers are rarely seperated from babies

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