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Who created the Strange Situation test?

Ainsworth and Bell

What was the aim of the Strange Situation test?

A method for assessing the quality of attachment

Sample?

100 middle class infants+mothers

What is separation anxiety?

Unease infant shows in absence of caregiver

What is stranger anxiety?

The infant's response to the presence of a stranger

Reunion Behaviour? Whass'at?

The way the infant responds when caregiver returns

What is meant by exploration?

An infant's willingness to explore, using caregiver as a safe base

Eight stages of the Strange Situation test?

1. Infant and mother play
2. Stranger enters and mother leaves
3. Stranger tries to comfort infant
4. Mother returns and stranger leaves
5. Mother comforts infant then leaves
6. Infant is alone for a short time
7. Stranger returns to comfort infant
8. Mother returns and stranger leaves

Do Insecure avoidant relationships have separation anxiety? How do they react to strangers?

Little or no separation anxiety, easily comforted by strangers.

How do Insecure Ambivalent relationships react to the caregiver leaving and stranger entering?

They show separation anxiety/discomfort, don't like the strangers.

Name 3 social releasers.

Eyes, crying, laughing

When is the critical period?

From 6 months to 2.5 years.

What is the adaptive advantage?

Our innate ability to seek out what we need, e.g food and warmth.

What is mono trophy?

The one special bond between an infant and its primary care giver.

What is the internal working model?

The way your first relationship sets the framework for all future ones.

What is the core study?

Hazen and Shaver's Love Quiz

What was the aim of the core study?

An investigation into how far our infant relationship affect our future ones.

For the acronym of Bowlby's main points, what does each letter mean:
A
S
C
M
I

Adaptive Advantage
Social Releasers
Critical Period
Mono trophy
Internal Working Model

What was the sample for the Core Study?

620 people between 14-82 had their answered analysed.

Do their findings agree with Bowlby's idea of the internal working model?

Yes

Name three limitations of the Core Study.

Unrepresentative Sample.
Honesty.
Closed Questions.

What is the Core Theory?

Strange Situation

Alternative Theory?

Learning- Attachment for food.

Applications of this research to real life?

Knowing how to provide good daycare for young children; e.g give them a mother figure and low staff:child ratio.
Allow them to form an attachment and keep staff on for longer so they don't have to separate. This is because the child needs a good bond with the person caring for it.
Hospital care:
Keep mothers with children to eliminate the

What is deprivation?

When a child has formed a bond, then it is broken for one reason or another because of absence of their attachment-partner.

What is privation?

When a child does not have the chance to form an attachment.