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The strange situation
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The strange situation
Ainsworth and Bell (1974)
- How does a child behave towards strangers and caregivers in controlled conditions
- Mother and child enter room
- Mother responds to child if they seek it
- Stranger enters, talks to mother, mother leaves
- Stranger lets child play
- Mother enters room and stranger leaves
- Mother does not approach child
- Repeated
- Mother does not approach child
- Mother enters room and stranger leaves
- Stranger lets child play
- Stranger enters, talks to mother, mother leaves
- Mother responds to child if they seek it
- If at any point the child cant be soothed the experiment is over.
- They found three main attachment types
- Secure
- Resistant insecure
- Avoidant insecure
- dont mind separation, avoid contact on return, willing to explore
- Distressed at separation, clingy on return, unwilling to explore
- Avoidant insecure
- Explore, wary of stranger but easy to soothe, welcome mom back
- Resistant insecure
- Secure
Evaluate
- Demand characteristics as unfamiliar setting
- Assumes etic
- Westernised children left alone for periods of time, ugandan not
- Easy to replicate
- Making it reliable
- Incorrect to assume insecure attachment is maladaptive
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