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Outline the procedure used in Ainsworth and Bell's 'strange situation'
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- Research to determine the ways in which children differ in their attachment behaviours. - Lab setting, structured observations of 9-18 months. - 100 middle-class americans - 8 episodes involving the mother, baby and a strange testing stranger anxiety, separation anxiety and reunion behaviour. |
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Explain a secure child in terms of: - willingness to explore - stranger anxiety - separation anxiety - reunion behaviour - & |
- plays happily, uses mother as safe base - wary of strangers - moderate separation distress - goes to mother for comfort, easily soothed - 66% |
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Explain an insecure avoidant child in terms of: - willingness to explore - stranger anxiety - separation anxiety - reunion behaviour - % |
- happy to explore, no gravitation to mother - no anxiety in presence of stranger - no anxiety on separation - no attempt to get close to mother on reunion - 22% |
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Explain an insecure resistant child in terms of: - willingness to explore - stranger anxiety - separation anxiety - reunion behaviour - % |
- limited exploration - ignored stranger - highly distressed on separation - difficult to console on reunion, anger - 12% |
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What are the positives of this research?
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Provides a vast amount of information very quickly = speed and replicability allow more research to be done into individual differences in attachment.
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What are the negatives of this research?
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Lab experiment = low ecological validity Only Americans = low population validity Classification system doesn't fit all = disorganised attachment later added, also, attachment can change based on family situations. |
