Types of attachment

• What was her aim?

  to see how infants of 9-18 months behave under mild anxiety and novelty.
• What does a insecure resistant baby look like?

  high levels of proximity seeking, not lots of exploration

  high levels of stranger anxiety

  resist comfort when reunited with caregiver.
• What does a insecure avoidant baby look like?

  explore freely but dont' seek rpoximity or show secure base.

  little stranger anxiety

  little effort to make contact when caregiver returns
• What does a securely attached baby mean?

  babies explore happily but regularly go back to caregiver(proximity seeking and secure base behaviour)

  usually show moderate seperation distress and stranger anxiety.

  accept comfort in reunion
• Give the percentages of each attachment type of the infants in the study

  B: secure: 66%

  A; insecure resistant:22%

  c: insecure avoidant:12%
• What were the 4 main behaviours observed?

  exploration behaviour

  proximity seeking

  stranger anxiety/seperation

  reunion behaviour
• What was the procedure?

  9x9 foot space in a uncommon room marked into 16 squares to help monitoringIt was a controlled observation in which the child and the mother wereobserved interacting in 8 different scenarios (episodes). Controlledobservation set up in a lab. using a two way mirror whichAinsworth used to make her observations