Ainsworth Theory Research Paper

The Ainsworth Theory is a theory involved with the different attachment qualities between children of 9 months to 2 years old. There are 3 types of attachments: secure attachment, ambient attachment, and avoidant attachment. In secure attachment, the baby will become very distressed when the mothers leave, be friendly with strangers only when the mother is around, and positive and happy when the mother returns. These babies are usually confident that their attachment figures will provide them with what they need. With ambient attachment, the baby will show signs of distraught when the mother leaves, always avoids strangers, and may resist the mother a bit when she returns. Children in this category are very ambiguous in their actions. At some times, they are clingy, but at other times they will push away the person. In avoidant attachment, the baby show no change when the mother leaves, is perfectly fine with the stranger, and shows little to no interest when the mother returns. The child name is Lily Lin and she is a female. She is 1 year and 5 months old. Lily was born in China, but moved to the United …show more content…
The child would keep clinging onto their mother or cry until she comes back. This experience tells us that from Ainsworth’s work, described a secure attachment. That’s because whenever the caregiver and stranger is present, the baby seems to be fine. When the caregiver leaves and is left with the stranger, the child immediately cries for it’s caregiver. In addition, Ainsworth’s work was quickly shown to be true about secure attachments. We thought that Ainsworth’s work was right with the 3 types of attachments, but the procedure taken place only shows the child's attachment to it’s mother, not between it’s father, so the mother isn't always the main attachment figure, and we can’t assume that she will always