Attachment Types Flashcards
Insecure avoidant
Willing to explore, low stranger anxiety, indifferent in separation, avoids contact in reunion
Insecure resistant
Doesn’t explore, very high stranger anxiety, the child was already crying before the mother left, seeks and rejects in reunion
Where was the strange situation carried out
In a lab, there fore it was highly controlled
How many people was the strange situation carried out on
106 white middle class children from the USA
How old where the children in the strange situation
9-18 months
What was the IV of the strange situation
Presence and absence of mother and stranger
What is the DV of the strange situation
Behaviour of the child
What is on the the strange situations behavioural checklist
Proximity behaviour, search behaviour, avoiding behaviour, contact maintaining behaviour, reunion behaviour
The strange situation was
Videoed and the footage was reviewed every 15 seconds to see what behaviour the child was doing
How many children where securely attached in the strange situation
66% of the children where securely attached and had high stranger anxiety
Ainsworths study in Uganda was
A natural observation
How many people was the Uganda study done on
26 women and children
How long was the Uganda study done for
2 years
What were the results of the Uganda study
the most sensitive mothers formed the strongest attachment
How many people where used in Ainsworths baltimore study
26 women and children
In the Baltimore experiment when where the mothers interviewed
After a year
In Baltimore what was also used
The strange situation and observation
What where the findings of the baltimore study
The most sensitive mothers formed the strongest attachment
Main and Weston
Strange situation tests relationships between parents and child, when strange situation done with both parents the attachment type was different
Prior and Glacer
Used the strange situation to predict later social behaviour, securely attached children at 18 months at 6 can make friends and share, insecure avoiders at 18 months at 6 years are aggressive, insecure resistant at 18 months at 6 years are anxiouse
The love quiz to predict adult romantic behaviour
The test was half on childhood attachment and half on adult relationships,
secure- had feeling term stable relationships
Avoidant- fear of closeness, temporary love
Resistant- preoccupied by love, falls in love easily
Maternal sensitivity scale
Secure mother so mother is sensitive to needs
Avoidant mother ignored child which lead to anger
Resistant mother didn’t play with baby which lead to avoidance
Secure attachment
Willing to explore, easily comforted, high stranger anxiety, strong contact in reunion and can be easily soothed
