Mary Ainsworth

society may not require attachment to physically survive, John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory still is applicable (V. Rajan, PS200 lecture, Fall 2016). It may not result in either life or death, but it may equate to survival, or success, in society. Mary Ainsworth furthered this theory with her study The Strange Situation (V. Rajan, PS200 lecture, Fall 2016). In the study, it is found that the children who do the most exploring are those who are securely attached. It is only with secure babies where…

relationship- are more likely to survive (Kail and Cavanaugh, 2013). Infants and caregivers tend to have an attachment by the infant’s age of 8-9 months. Attachment takes on many forms, and influences from the environment help to determine its quality. Mary Ainsworth is a researcher that studies attachment. She performed a study based on how infants react when they are separated from their mothers and when they are reunited with them. Based on her research, she discovered four main types of…

comfort from another individual who is normally part of an extensive, emotionally significant relationship. One type of attachment is the connection between a child and their mother or caregiver (Custance, 2012). This type of attachment is what Ainsworth focused on when she developed the Strange Situation procedure. This essay will mainly focus on Ainsworth’s Strange Situation procedure, to identify the usefulness and limitations of it into the understanding of attachment. There are many…

doing puzzles, dancing around and rocking him. Leaving him alone at daycare I have to reassure him where I am going and that I will be back. He calms down shortly after this but his separation anxiety stems from us having a secure base attachment. (2C) Mary Ainsworth’s theory of a secure base can be seen in Aidan’s attachment. The Strange Situation model can help explain this through stranger anxiety and separation anxiety. These two reactions show that my partner and I have created a secure…

During her study, Mary asked the caregiver leaved their children twice, first with stranger and alone at the second time. By observing the emotion and action of the children, she discovered out three patterns of the attachment which are secure attachment, avoidant attachment…

This observation consisted of several controlled conditions aimed to spur a reaction out of the infant and observe how they react in such situations. The different patterns of attachment that were identified as a result of this study according to Ainsworth were the secure attachment, anxious-ambivalent and avoidant. These attachment styles then led to form the basis for most theorists to base their work…

The last phase is the fourth phase, from 2 years and beyond. In this phase, the mother becomes more independent because the child starts to accept the idea of separation since he starts to develop abstract thinking. Mary Ainsworth, is a psychologist who studied the types of attachments behavior that children could have with their mothers through a procedure that she designed known as the strange situation paradigm. This procedure is divided into eight episodes each one…

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.…

significance of attachment theory for social work practitioners and how they can implement this to develop emotional functioning with younger children. In addition I will examine how the theory has changed and progressed since John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth first “attempts to examine the psychological effects of early relationships” ( Goldberg,2000, pg3) to more contemporary approach such as Michael Rutter’s book on “Maternal Deprivation reassessed” critiquing Bowlby and the development in…

infancy, to the parental interactions in the adolescent years, and finally, the results of medical interventions for those who have developed specific attachment styles and how this directly relates to the effectiveness of treatment. In the 1970’s, Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby began to investigate the natural…