Question 15

Ainsworth

Strange Situation Attachment theory: Secure Avoidant Ambivalent

Strange Situation

A behavioral test used to determine a child's attachment style

Hazan and Shaver

Attachment Styles in adults Secure Insecure Avoidant Ambivalent

John Bowlby

Proposed that since babies can't follow their mothers that they do other things such as cry, coo, and gurgle to get their mothers to move toward them Infants use the response time of different people to target their Primary caregiver Attachment: an emotional bond Attachment instinctive in mammals

Harlow

Rhesus monkeys

Avodiant

The child doesn't care when the caregiver leaves nor comes back I am somewhat uncomfortable being close to others; I find it difficult to trust them completely, difficult to allow myself to depend upon them. I am nervous when anyone gets too close, and often love partners want me to be more intimate than I feel comfortable being.

Secure

Most common, the child may or may not become distressed when the caregiver leaves, non-distressed children will acknowledge when they return and distressed children will be calmed when they return; feel certain that their primary caregiver will respond I find it relatively easy to get close to others and am comfortable depending on them and having them depend on me. I don't often worry about being abandoned or about someone getting too close.

Ambivalent

The child will be distressed when the caregiver leaves but will refuse to be calmed by them when they return; uncertain that their primary caregiver will respond Disorganized: show no consistent pattern of response to the caregiver leaving and returning; confused about their caregiver I find that others are reluctant to get as close as I would like. I often worry that my partner doesn't love me or won't want to stay with me. I want to merge completely with another person, and this desire sometimes scares people away.