Mary Ainsworth is a developmental psychologist best-known for her "Strange Situation" assessment of early childhood attachment. We also call the “Strange Situation” assessment the Attachment Theory. The Attachment Theory is centered on the emotional bonds between people and suggests that our earliest attachments can leave a lasting mark on our lives. Ainsworth’s theory involves four categories of different behaviors: separation anxiety‚ the infants willingness to explore‚ stranger anxiety‚ and reunion
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Attachment styles have been studied for many centuries. The quest to understand how we develop these attachments and what affects them has led to many studies throughout history. Mary Ainsworth’s studies and research are the most well-known when it comes to attachment styles. From her research and studies we have developed three main attachment styles. These styles are secure attachment style‚ avoidant attachment style‚ and anxious/ambivalent attachment style. Each person will fall somewhere within
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lead them to believe that the world is cruel and bad. Autonomy vs. shame this stage the child learns to do activities independently but can also lead to shame if they lose approval. 2. Explain Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation experiment‚ and its significance in the development of attachment. Mary Ainsworth’s strange situation experiment is to assess the quality of the infant attachment with the caregiver. The experiment was having a mother leaving the 12-18
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Mary Ainsworth PSY/310 Mary D. Salter Ainsworth When reading many introductions on the history of psychology it is noticed there are very few females mentioned. That does not mean women are not attributed to making significant impacts in the development of psychology. “The contributions of many of psychology ’s most eminent female thinkers have long been ignored‚ but that is starting to change as more history texts begin to recognize women such as Karen Horney‚ Mary Ainsworth‚ Leta Hollingworth
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According to psychologist Mary Ainsworth‚ attachment may be defined as an affectional tie that one person or animal forms between themselves and another specific one- a tie that binds them together in space and endures over time. Attachment is a bond where one person feels the need to have close contact with another person. They also experience distress during separation from that special person. This is particularly important during childhood. Attachment does not have to be mutual. One person may
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Harlow and Mary Ainsworth on understanding attachment “Attachment is relatively long term‚ emotionally important relationship in which one individual seeks proximity to and derives security and comfort from the presence of another” (Investigating psychology‚ 2012 p. 193). Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth are two famous psychologist who provided us series of experiments to understand the attachment in terms of psychology. HarryHarlow started the experiments on monkeys and Mary Ainsworth focused
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Ainsworth Strange Situation Studies The Strange Situation procedure‚ developed by American psychologist Mary Ainsworth‚ is widely used in child development research. Much research in psychology has focused on how forms of attachment differ between infants. For example‚ Schaffer and Emerson (1964) discovered what appeared to be innate differences in sociability in babies; some babies preferred cuddling more than others‚ from very early on‚ before much interaction had occurred to cause such differences
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her 1970’s research‚ psychologist Mary Ainsworth expanded greatly upon Bowlby’s original work. Her groundbreaking "Strange Situation" study revealed the profound effects of attachment on behavior. In the study‚ researchers observed children between the ages of 12 and 18 months as they responded to a situation in which they were briefly left alone and then reunited with their mothers (Ainsworth‚ 1978). Based upon the responses the researchers observed‚ Ainsworth described three major styles of attachment:
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a connection between two people. It is a bond that involves a persons desire for regular contact with that person and the experience of distress during separation from that person” (Ainsworth‚ M. 1958) Two of the biggest contributors to the understanding of attachment are Harry Harlow (1905 - 1981) and Mary Ainsworth (1913 - 1999). In 1958‚ psychologist Harry Harlow conducted a series of experiments to investigate an infants bond with its mother or care provider. Due to the ethics at the time
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future relationships (Norton‚ 2003). AT provided answers the high mortality in orphanages as well as providing caregivers and professionals insight into the parent-child bond (Dewar‚ 2014) The Strange Situation Procedure (SSP)‚ designed by Mary Ainsworth (as citied by Mcleod‚ 2008) is commonly used to determine the infants’ attachment and the type of attachment the child has to his/her caregiver (Benoit‚ 2004). In this scenario described above‚ it is appears that the social worker uses part of
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