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attachment types
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- 1What are type A babies?Anxious-avoidant (20%) - acts indifferent to mother, few signs of distress when she leaves, avoids her upon return
- 2What are type B babies?Securely attached (70%) - uses mother as a secure base for exploration, distressed when mother leaves and calmed easily upon return.
- 3What are type C babies?Anxious resistant (10%) - fussy when mother there, very distressed when mother leaves and ambivalent upon her return
- 4What is the SS?The strange situation is a controlled observation developed by Ainsworth. It consists of 8 different stages involving separation and reunion behaviour of a baby as well as stranger anxiety.
- 5What did Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg do?They conducted a meta analysis of 32 studies using the SS over 8 different countries.
- 6What did VI + K find about differences being relatively small?They found that most of the children in most of the countries were classed as type B
- 7What did VI + K find about cross cultural differences?They found that there were only 50% type B in china compared to 75% in Britain. Also type A was more common than C in western countries where as in Israel + Japan C was more common than A
- 8What did VI + K find about cross cultural similarities?They found that there were more differences in one culture than there were between two cultures.
- 9Good points of VI + K's study?- Very large sample, easier to be sure that results can be applied to the real world.
- 10Bad points of VI + K's study?- Culturally biased, most of the studies were carried out in an individualist cultures which value independence
- SS itself is culturally biased, it assumes that independence is a feature of secure attachment but in non western societies they dont and may be wrongly classified
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