The strange situation is an experiment by Ainsworth in 1970s to observe the attachment relationships between a parent and their child. Usually the child is between the age of nine months to eighteen months. The Adult attachment interview was developed by Carol George, Nancy Kaplan and Mary Main 1984 to explore parents’ mental representations of attachment as manifested in language during discourse of childhood experiences. The AAI was intended to predict the quality of the infant-parent attachment relationship as observed in the Ainsworth Strange situation. The other study that supports the claim that attachment styles do not in fact changed is called “Continuities and changes in infant attachment patterns across two generations” it was conducted by K. Lee Raby, Ryan D. Steele, Elizabeth A, Carlson and L. Alan Sroufe in 2015. This study compares the attachment styles across two generations from mother to daughter then the daughter to her …show more content…
The Adult Attachment Interview is based on two expectations: Firstly, that the first-person memories are the continuing reconstruction of their personal past, in light of new experiences and, secondly that the glorification of their past, specifically the negative childhood experiences, can be traced by researching the form and content of the first-person narrative separately. The Adult Attachment Interview is quasi structured interview that analyses for a general description of relationships, specific supportive or contradicting memories and descriptions of their current relationship with their