Aim: interested in exploring different types of attachment between babies and caregiver
Procedure: 1-18 months observes in lab playroom.
1. m+b play
2. 3 mins later, s+m talk
3. s play with b
4. m leaves, b cries, s comforts.
5. 3 mins later m returns, s leaves
6. 3 mins later, m leaves baby alone.
7. s enters to comfort
8. m teturns, s leaves
Allows to assess separation anxiety+stranger anxiety
Results: Idenitifed 3 types of behaviour
- Secure infants (B) 70%
Mother safe base
happy to explore room when present
distress when alone
welcome mum back
wary of stranger - Insecure avoidant attachment (A) 15%
some distress when left by mum and didnt seek comfort on return.
reject stranger
keep distance and avoid closeness - Insecure ambivalent (C) 15%
upset on separation
not easily comforted when mother returned as angry she left
Alternated seeking closeness and distance
Main and Solomon (1986)
Some babies didn't fit into any of the categories so developed a Type 4 which is 'disorganised attachment'
Some babies didn't fit into any of the categories so developed a Type 4 which is 'disorganised attachment'
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