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LT4 - Ainsworth's Strange Situation
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LT4 - Ainsworth's Strange Situation
AO1
- Procedure
- P.E.R.S.S.
- P - Proximity Seeking
- E - Exploration and secure base behaviour
- R - Response to Reunion
- S - Stranger Anxiety
- S - Separation Anxiety
- Cries when separated
- Proximity to parents, SBB, stops playing
- S - Separation Anxiety
- Calm quickly
- S - Stranger Anxiety
- Feel confident to explore
- Point of contact to feel safe
- R - Response to Reunion
- Relatively close if well-attached
- E - Exploration and secure base behaviour
- P - Proximity Seeking
- Covert Observation
- Mothers/Infants filmed
- 100 Middle-class American Family
- 12-18 month old babies
- Structured
- Specific behaviours graded with points system
- 1 - BME
- 2 - BM
- 3 - BMS
- 4 - BS
- 5 - BM
- 6 - B
- 7 - BS
- 8 - BM
- 7 - BS
- 6 - B
- 5 - BM
- 4 - BS
- 3 - BMS
- 2 - BM
- B = Baby
- M = Mother
- E = Experimenter
- S = Stranger
- E = Experimenter
- M = Mother
- P.E.R.S.S.
- Findings
- Type A - Avoidant
- Type B - Secure
- Type C - Insecure Resistant
- Very distressed on separation
- Resists contact when caregiver returns
- Wary of stranger
- Distress on separation
- Easily consoled when caregiver returns
- Diff interaction with stranger and caregiver
- Type C - Insecure Resistant
- Little distress on separation
- Do not seek caregiver contact
- Treats stranger similar to caregiver
- just avoids em innit
- Type B - Secure
- Type A - Avoidant
- Procedure
AO3
- Weaknesses
- P: Individual Diff
- E1: Main & Solomn - Disorganised Attachment
- E2: Didn't fit A-C, grew up in abusive houses, maltreated mothers
- E3: Extreme fear responses to caregiver
- L: Incomplete
- E3: Extreme fear responses to caregiver
- E2: Didn't fit A-C, grew up in abusive houses, maltreated mothers
- E1: Main & Solomn - Disorganised Attachment
- P: Culturally biaed
- E1: Takahashi - SS doesn't work in Japan!
- E2: REALLY high separation anxiety (Rarely separated from babies), Japanese mothers rushing in reunion
- E3: Caregiver in diff cultures act diff
- L: Anglocentric
- E3: Caregiver in diff cultures act diff
- E2: REALLY high separation anxiety (Rarely separated from babies), Japanese mothers rushing in reunion
- E1: Takahashi - SS doesn't work in Japan!
- P: Individual Diff
- Strengths
- P: Good inter-rater reliability
- E1: Strict behaviour categories, controlled observation
- E2: Bick et al - 94% Agreement
- L: NOT individual subjective observer bias; it is from infant behaviour
- E2: Bick et al - 94% Agreement
- E1: Strict behaviour categories, controlled observation
- P: Good inter-rater reliability
- Weaknesses
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- A level Psychology (U6 MOCKS - ATTACHMENT) Mind Map on LT4 - Ainsworth's Strange Situation, created by Kiran Bacchus on 18/02/2022.
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