evaluation

• evaluate good reliability

  • Shows good inter-rater reliability
  • Because under controlled conditions and behavioural categories are easy to observe
  • bick et al- looked at reliability in observers who agreed on 94% of tested babies
  • Can be confident in conclusions
• evaluate test may be culture- bound

  • The test may not have the same meaning in countries outside Western Europe
  • Because cultural differences in childhood experience mean that children respond differently and caregivers from different cultures behave differently
  • Takahashi- Japanese mothers rarely separated from babies so showed high separation anxiety
  • Test does not work in japan
• evaluate one more attachment type

  • main and Solomon pointed out that a minority displayed atypical attachments
  • this is known as disorganised attachment which is where children display a mix of resistant and avoidant behaviours, due to inconsistent or frightening experiences with caregivers in childhood