Mary D. Saslter Ainsworth was an american psychologist, she was born in Ohio in 1913 and she died in Virginia University in 1999. Ainsworth was teacher, psychology researcher and she even joined in the Canadian army during the II World War. She had researched about the “theory of attachment” done by John Bowlby and she has reinvented it with her investigation skill called “strange situation” doing a great job of contribution to social psychology. In this paper I’m going to talk about this incredible, fighter and inteligent woman and her contribution to psychology.
First of all, Mary Ainsworth has expended part of her life corroborating John Bowlby theories,who developed teh “theory of attachment”, through observation methods of attachment …show more content…
“Strange situation” is an observation skill which is used to test the quality of the links between the kid and his or her parent during the 2 first years of life. It has 8 episodes which consist on separations and meetings with the mother and with a different adult in a room. The results can be the four partners, which I have talk before. Secure attachment: The kid preffers the mother so she or he reduces the cry when the mother is in the room, the kid wants the contact with the parent. Insecure-avoidant attachment: The kid cries just when is alone in the room and that is why she or he has the same reaction with the mum and with the strange. Resistant attachment: Before the mother leaves the room, the kid wants her proximity, when she returns they are angry, some of them can, even hit her, and she or he can’t stop crying. Desorganized attachment: The link with the mother seems insecure. When the mother returns the, kid has a contradictory behaviour which implies desorganization, the kid looks …show more content…
The clasification of the types of attachment is a represenation of the relationship with the rest, and this is useful information to interpretate the actions and intentions of the kid and redirect his or her behaviour. Different experiences make different representations, and the behaviour of the parent is an important influence, Ainsworth has made a clasification of the parent’s behaviour, it can be: susceptible when the kid call her , insensible with the kid and atend the kid in an incoherent way. If the behaviour of the parent is coherent and appropiate to the behaviour of the kid, the link of attachment is reinforced and safety.
In conclusion, Mary Ainsworth has reinveted the “theory of attachment”, focussed in establish a correct and healthy link between the mum and the kid. Her “strange situation” is used nowadays in the investigation of development, although the critics that she received because it was “just a little scientific’’. So, it was a contribution to psychology, she improved the “theory of attachment” and the way that psychologists have to see the links betweent parents and
First of all, Mary Ainsworth has expended part of her life corroborating John Bowlby theories,who developed teh “theory of attachment”, through observation methods of attachment …show more content…
“Strange situation” is an observation skill which is used to test the quality of the links between the kid and his or her parent during the 2 first years of life. It has 8 episodes which consist on separations and meetings with the mother and with a different adult in a room. The results can be the four partners, which I have talk before. Secure attachment: The kid preffers the mother so she or he reduces the cry when the mother is in the room, the kid wants the contact with the parent. Insecure-avoidant attachment: The kid cries just when is alone in the room and that is why she or he has the same reaction with the mum and with the strange. Resistant attachment: Before the mother leaves the room, the kid wants her proximity, when she returns they are angry, some of them can, even hit her, and she or he can’t stop crying. Desorganized attachment: The link with the mother seems insecure. When the mother returns the, kid has a contradictory behaviour which implies desorganization, the kid looks …show more content…
The clasification of the types of attachment is a represenation of the relationship with the rest, and this is useful information to interpretate the actions and intentions of the kid and redirect his or her behaviour. Different experiences make different representations, and the behaviour of the parent is an important influence, Ainsworth has made a clasification of the parent’s behaviour, it can be: susceptible when the kid call her , insensible with the kid and atend the kid in an incoherent way. If the behaviour of the parent is coherent and appropiate to the behaviour of the kid, the link of attachment is reinforced and safety.
In conclusion, Mary Ainsworth has reinveted the “theory of attachment”, focussed in establish a correct and healthy link between the mum and the kid. Her “strange situation” is used nowadays in the investigation of development, although the critics that she received because it was “just a little scientific’’. So, it was a contribution to psychology, she improved the “theory of attachment” and the way that psychologists have to see the links betweent parents and