AO1

• Aim

  • to see how infants behave under stress and novelty
• Procedure

  • around 100 middle class mothers participated
  • 15 observers through a 2 way mirror
  • 7 episodes studied
• Findings

  • Exploratory behaviours declined episode 2 onwards and amount of crying increased
  • Proximity seeking and contact maintaining behaviour intensified during separation and stranger being present
  • Contact resisting and proximity avoiding behaviours occured rarely toward caregiver prior to seperation
• Type A

  • insecure avoidant
  • Children avoid social interaction and intimacy
  • Explore freely but do not seek proximity or secure base behaviour
  • Little to no reaction when caregiver leaves
  • Make little effort to make contact upon reunion
  • Show little stranger anxiety
  • 22% of children
• Type B

  • Secure attachment
  • Harmonious and cooperative relations with caregivers
  • Happy to explore but often go back to caregiver
  • moderate seperation distress and stranger anxiety
  • Require and accept comfort from caregiver upon reunion
  • 66% of children
• Type c

  • insecure resistant
  • Seek greater proximity therefore explore less
  • High stranger anxiety and seperatjon distress
  • Resist comfort upon union with caregiver
  • Only 3% of British children classed as type c
  • 12% of children