Much research in psychology has focused on how forms of attachment differ among infants, however, it was probably the psychologist Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) who provided the most famous research which offered explanations of individual differences in infants.
As adults, we easily know when we are attached to someone because we know how we feel when we are apart from them, and we can put our feelings into words. But most of the attachment research was carried out using infants as participants, thus psychologist had to devise subtle ways of researching attachment styles which usually involves observation method. The video demonstrated an assessment technique called the Strange Situation Classification (SSC) to investigate how attachment might
As adults, we easily know when we are attached to someone because we know how we feel when we are apart from them, and we can put our feelings into words. But most of the attachment research was carried out using infants as participants, thus psychologist had to devise subtle ways of researching attachment styles which usually involves observation method. The video demonstrated an assessment technique called the Strange Situation Classification (SSC) to investigate how attachment might