Strange situation

Question 1

AO1

Answer 1

• Novel environment 9 times 9 foot space with 16 sqaures to help record movment
  8 episodes to highlight certian behaviours, caregiver and stranger stay with the infant and leave alternating
  Measures separation anxiety, reunion behaviour, starnger anxiety, tests secure base concept
• Observers use a 1 way mirror, record categories such as promixity and contact behaviours, contact maintaining behaviours etc, rate on 1-7 scale
  Findings- 106 middle class infants observed
  Type b( secure) harmonius and cooperative interactions, high exploration, moderate stranger anxiety, easily soothed seperation anxiety, enthusiastic reunion
  Type A avoidant- high exploration, low stranger anxiety, no separation anxiety, avoids contact at reunion
  Type C- low exploartion, high stranger anxiety, distressed in seperation, seeks and rejects upon reuinon

Question 2

strength

Answer 2

High predictive validity for development
Type B have better outcomes in life such as education than type c or a
Type b have better mental health
Real attachment high validity

Question 3

AO3

Answer 3

• High inter rater reliability, agreement was found in 94 percent of cases
  Due to controlled observations
  Confidence that the attachment types are not subjective

Question 4

Limitation

Answer 4

Culture bound- only tested on western europeans
Results may only apply to these cultures
Japanease have mostly insecure resistant attachment as studies have shown, cant apply to other cultures
Lack generalisability prone to culture bias

Question 5

Limitation

Answer 5

• Lacks ecological validity, strange and artifical environment
  Unlikley to happen in real life
  Consequences are wrong classification reducing validity