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Question 1

What is type A?

Answer 1

Anxious/avoidant

Avoidant behaviour is shown in reunion episodes.
Often the child appears to be exploring without concern for security.
During alone periods it does not appear distressed.

Question 2

What is type B?

Answer 2

Secure

On reunion the child will greet the
mother and make visual or physical contact.
It will then settle down for independent play.

Question 3

What is type C?

Answer 3

Anxious/Resistant

The child appears to be ambivalent in that she avoids contact and interaction in reunion phase. But seeks proximity and contact at times.

Question 4

What is type D?

Answer 4

The children appeared to be disoriented during the procedure and sometimes showed a fear of the mother.

Question 5

What is the adult equivalent of secure infants?

Answer 5

Autonomous adults:

Secure adults who value attachments and are able to talk coherently and realistically about them.
Positive relationships with own parents can be described realistically and they can acknowledge past unhappiness in unhappy relationships.

Question 6

What is the adult equivalent of an avoidant infant?

Answer 6

Dismissive adults:

These adults downplay the importance of intimate relationships. They may idealise their childhoods or give contradictory reports about it.

They might describe negative experiences but fail to acknowledge their emotional effect.

Question 7

What is the adult equivalent of resistant (ambivalent) infant?

Answer 7

Enmeshed/preoccupied adults

These adults are still caught in struggles with parents.
They lack a sense of personal identity and have difficulty evaluating their own role within relationships.

Question 8

What is the adult equivalent of a disorganised infant?

Answer 8

Unresolved adults

These adults show unresolved mourning over the loss of an attachment figure, through death, divorce, abuse or neglect.