Ainsworth

Ainsworth

1. Strange Situation

   • Parent and Infant play
   • Parent sit while infant plays
   • Stranger enters and talks to the parent
   • Parent leaves, infant plays, stranger offers comfort if needed
     • Parent returns, greets infant, offers comfort if needed, stranger leaves
       • Parent leaves, infant alone
         • Stranger enters and offers comfort
           • Parent returns,greets infant,offers comfort
   • use of parent as secure base
     • stranger anxiety
       • seperation anxiety
         • reunion behaviour
           • seperation anxiety
             • stranger anxiety
               • reunion behaviour

2. Secure attachment

   • cooperative interactions with their caregiver
   • not likely to cry when caregiver leaves the room
   • comfortable with social interaction and intimacy

3. Insecure Avoidant

   • avoid social interaction and intimacy
   • characterised by high levels of anxiousness

4. Insecure-resistant

   • both seeks and resists intimacy and social interaction
   • may angrily resist being picked up