strange situation

Question 1

procedure of strange situation

Answer 1

consists of 8 episode, each designed to highlight a certain behaviour. The key feature are the caregiver and stranger stay and leave the infant, enabling an response.
Data was collected by a grp of observer using a video record, they recorded the infant every 15 second

Question 2

seperation anxiety

Answer 2

seperation from caregiver

Question 3

reunion behaviour

Answer 3

reuniting with caregiver

Question 4

stranger anxiety

Answer 4

response to a stranger

Question 5

findings of Stranger anxiety

Question 6

evaluation of Stranger anxiety

Answer 6

+ observation has a high reliability
as it has a clearly defined procedure with operationalised variables. This enables researchers to replicate

• low internal validity as Main and weston found that children behave differently depending on which parent they are with suggesting classification of an attachment type may not be valid

Question 7

procedure of Bowlbys theory of maternal deprivation

Answer 7

Bowlby conducted his 44 juvenile study
out of 44 thieves, 14 displayed signs of affectionless psychopathy and 12 suffered from maternal deprivation during the critical period

Question 8

evaluation of Bowlbys theory of maternal deprivation

Answer 8

• lewis et al disagreed with Bowlby’s conclusion by collecting data from interviews conducted with 500 juveniles, the research found no link between maternal deprivation and difficulty in forming rs in later life

Question 9

procedure of romanion orphan

Answer 9

1) studied a group of 165 romanian orphan. 111 of these were adopted before 2 years old and the thurther 54 were adopted by 4.
2) They were assessed at 4,6,11 and 15 years old, in terms of pyschological, emotional and physical developments
3) these results were compared to 52 children adopted in Britain at roughly the same time, who acted as a control group

Question 10

findings of the romanian study

Answer 10

if the extreme privation in early life could be overcome by love and care

Question 11

Evaluation of romanian study

Answer 11

• rutter did not have much informstion about the infanst lives in orphanages prior to adoption. the lack of info makes it difficult to determine the extent of eachs privation

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Question 12

reciprocity

Answer 12

responding to the action of another with a similar action

Question 13

interactional synchrony

Answer 13

when 2 people interact they tend to mirror what the other doing is

Question 14

who studied caregiver infant interaction

Answer 14

Meltzoff and moore

Question 15

animal studies on attachment

Answer 15

lorenz imprinting
harlow food and comfort

Question 16

lorenz’s study

Answer 16

split a clutch of goose eggs into 2
one group was hatched to the natural mother and
the other was hatched in a incubator (Lorenz was the first moving object the newly hatched goslings experienced)
then the goslings were put together

Question 17

findings of lorenz study

Answer 17

the naturally hatched goslings followed the mother whereas the incubated goslings followed lorenz
This ezperiment demonstrates imprinting

Question 18

evaluation of lorenz’s study

Answer 18

geese are very different to humans and so its unclear from this study which extends to which imprinting occurs in a newborn baby humans

this can study can provide studies for Bowlbys concept of critical period

Question 19

4 stages of attachment

Answer 19

asocial stage, indiscriminate stage, specific stage, multiple stage

Question 20

harlows study

Answer 20

8 mokey were splitted from their natural mother
harlow created 2 wire mothers with different head but one was wrapped with soft cloth. They were studied for a period of 165 days.
for four of the monkey the milk bottles was on the cloth covered monkey and on the plain wire monkey for the other 4 monkeys

Question 21

findings of the harlows studies

Answer 21

all 8 monkeys spent the most amount of time with the cloth covered mother whether or not the mother has been had the feeding bottle. Those monkey who were fed from the wired monkey only spend a short time getting milk and then returning to the cloth covered

Question 22

strength for lorenz

Answer 22

research for imprinting
a number of other studies has demonstrated imprinting in animal