Mary Ainsworth's Attachment Style Analysis

In class, Dr. Felver discussed the different attachment styles of children and how their attachment to their caregiver affects their behavior. According to Mary Ainsworth 's strange situation experiment where a child, caregiver and stranger are in a room and observing how the child reacts to the stranger being there, the caregiver leaving and then returning. Based off the way that the child reacts to these different situations allowed for four different attachment styles to become standardized. The four attachment styles are secure, avoidant, resistant, and insecure disorganized. With a secure attachment the child might have minor protest to the caregiver leaving, but will reestablish connection quickly. With an avoidant attachment style the child has no real interaction with the caregiver, the child couldn 't care less if the caregiver was there or not. With a resistant attachment style the child has a very strong attachment to the caregiver, the child will become extremely upset when the caregiver leaves and will hold the grudge for a longer period of time. With an insecure disorganized attachment style the child is fearful and confused, they may show some traits from multiple …show more content…
Where Harry randomly obeys what this aunt and uncle tell him to do in forced in counters, but does not associate with them outside of those. He spends most of his time at home in his room alone. Harry is forced to take care of himself from a young age. Harry 's aunt and uncle would constantly be telling Harry that he was worthless and that they were being saints by allowing him to live in their home. When Harry goes away to Hogwortz he is by independent and relies mainly on himself. He has no real problem trusting strangers and relying on other people to help