Attachment Types

Question 1

Insecure avoidant

Answer 1

Willing to explore, low stranger anxiety, indifferent in separation, avoids contact in reunion

Question 2

Insecure resistant

Answer 2

Doesn’t explore, very high stranger anxiety, the child was already crying before the mother left, seeks and rejects in reunion

Question 3

Where was the strange situation carried out

Answer 3

In a lab, there fore it was highly controlled

Question 4

How many people was the strange situation carried out on

Answer 4

106 white middle class children from the USA

Question 5

How old where the children in the strange situation

Answer 5

9-18 months

Question 6

What was the IV of the strange situation

Answer 6

Presence and absence of mother and stranger

Question 7

What is the DV of the strange situation

Answer 7

Behaviour of the child

Question 8

What is on the the strange situations behavioural checklist

Answer 8

Proximity behaviour, search behaviour, avoiding behaviour, contact maintaining behaviour, reunion behaviour

Question 9

The strange situation was

Answer 9

Videoed and the footage was reviewed every 15 seconds to see what behaviour the child was doing

Question 10

How many children where securely attached in the strange situation

Answer 10

66% of the children where securely attached and had high stranger anxiety

Question 11

Ainsworths study in Uganda was

Answer 11

A natural observation

Question 12

How many people was the Uganda study done on

Answer 12

26 women and children

Question 13

How long was the Uganda study done for

Answer 13

2 years

Question 14

What were the results of the Uganda study

Answer 14

the most sensitive mothers formed the strongest attachment

Question 15

How many people where used in Ainsworths baltimore study

Answer 15

26 women and children

Question 16

In the Baltimore experiment when where the mothers interviewed

Answer 16

After a year

Question 17

In Baltimore what was also used

Answer 17

The strange situation and observation

Question 18

What where the findings of the baltimore study

Answer 18

The most sensitive mothers formed the strongest attachment

Question 19

Main and Weston

Answer 19

Strange situation tests relationships between parents and child, when strange situation done with both parents the attachment type was different

Question 20

Prior and Glacer

Answer 20

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

Question 21

The love quiz to predict adult romantic behaviour

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Maternal sensitivity scale

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Secure attachment

Answer 23

Willing to explore, easily comforted, high stranger anxiety, strong contact in reunion and can be easily soothed