Flashcards
Attachment Types
Cards in this deck (5)
- 1Strange Situation Ainsworth (1971, 1978)- 8 episodes to highlight different behaviours
- Separation from caregiver
- Reunion with caregiver
- Response to a stranger
- Recorded using a camera and a 1 way mirror - 2Ainsworth (1971, 1978)- Secure attachment: Harmonious relationship with the caregiver
- Insecure-avoidant: avoids social intimacy and show little to no tendency to cling or resist being picked up
- Insecure-resistant: seeks and resists intimacy - 3EvaluationOther types of attachment
> Research found another type of attachment
- Insecure-disorganised - lack of consistent patterns of social behaviour - 4EvaluationHigh reliability
> Observational studies
> Inter-observer reliability
> 0.94 agreement rate among observers
> Observations are seen as reliable - 5EvaluationLow internal validity
> Aims to measure attachment type of a child
> Is it really measuring it or is it measuring the quality of one attachment type?
> Main and Weston (1981) children behaved differently depending on which parent they're with