Mary Ainsworth

Every day people interact within different types of relationships, whether they are with friends, family or significant others. We have a need for these relationships. One of the most important relationships that provide support for an individual is the one we have with our parents. Multiple studies have shown that children rely on their parents for a sense of security in early development because of how the parents respond to their child. This sense of security that is given to the child helps…

Attachment The Attachment Theory maintains that the bond between an infant and his or her primary caregiver greatly influences personality, cognitive ability, and relationships throughout life. Psychologist Mary Ainsworth studied attachment patterns through an experiment known as the Strange Situation in which a mother left a child in a room for short period of time either alone or with a stranger; the child’s behavior was assessed when the mother left and when she returned. Three different…

be playful. He/she will not try to make eye contact with the stranger or if the caregiver and the stranger are together the infant will only pay attention to its caregiver. Many people don’t know on why infants act differently, but in this case Mary Ainsworth did a procedure called “Strange Situation Classification”. While doing this procedure she automatically…

Mary Ainsworth experiment called “strange situation” backs up Bowlby’s theory because she also said that children will have different patterns of attachment depending on how they experienced their early caregiving environment. They both also believed there…

There are numerous things that play into a child’s development. In the case of donyaeh their or a few key things holding his development back. This factors are poverty, role of mother, and education. The area a child is raised in plays a key role in their development as in the resource they have around them. Living in poverty there are numerous outlets to gain access to drugs. Love and Diane both had addiction to drugs and love still uses drugs. The fact they are so many action of doing drugs…

Attachment and trust versus mistrust will be discussed in the following paragraphs due to their related nature. The first stage of Erikson’s psychosocial development is trust versus mistrust, this stage begins with infants and lasts until about 18 months (Papalia & Martorell, 2015). It is posit by Erikson that this is the most important stage in an individual’s development. It is in this stage that the child learns if their environment is a place they can trust and whether they can trust the…

Attachment is a reciprocal and enduring tie that is formed between two people, particularly between an infant and his or her caregiver. Both parties play a role in the quality of the relationship and the strength of the attachment that follows. Attachment is an important part of life and an adaptive characteristic because it ensures that all of the baby’s needs will be met, including those of physical and psychosocial nature. Many believe that attachment is actually a biological process in which…

believe this is an essential life skill for every child to develop early on. Over all I can categorize my child-rearing pattern as an authoritative parenting style. British psychiatrist Bowlby and the developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth discuss how children need to develop a respectable attachment to their parents so that they feel comfortable to explore because they have a secure place to fall back on. Ainsworth’s secure attachment pattern defines, “children who have this…

Edward John Mostyn Bowlby was born on the 27th of February 1907 in London and died on the 2nd of September 1990 in Skye. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge and majored in natural sciences and psychology and then served as a psychologist in the army. After 1946 he worked at “the Tavistock Clinic and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.” (Goleman. D, 1990). John Bowlby’s Theory of Attachment Volume 1 was published in 1969 and Volume 2 was published in 1973 and these detailed his theory…

If you have ever taken a psychology course, you may remember Mary Ainsworth and her “Strange Situation” experiment pertaining to attachment styles. I remember my professor repeating several times “attachment is a psychological connection to another,” and our attachment to another was based on if and how they met our needs. During a developmental course, my mentor said, “the attachments we formed as children have lasting effects on us as adults.” Another “Psych 101” concept I remember was the…