1. How would you explain the various attachment styles identified based on the work of Bowlby and Ainsworth? It’s sufficiently simple to know when you are connected to somebody in light of the fact that you know how you feel when you are separated from that individual‚ and‚ being a grown-up‚ you can articulate your sentiments and portray how it feels. In any case‚ most connection examination is completed utilizing newborn children and youthful youngsters‚ so therapists need to devise inconspicuous
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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 on
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Compare and Contrast the work of Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth on understanding attachment. There has been extensive psychological research on relationships and in particular the bond between mother and child. This‚ and other strong bonds‚ has become known as ‘attachment’ due to a theory from a psychologist called John Bowlby. Bowlby’s theory was that infants have an inbuilt tendency to form relationships in order to assure their own survival from an evolutionary point of view. This was
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art‚ band‚ up to ROTC. I wasn’t aware of it at the time‚ but there was something hidden behind my personal chaos. Overall‚ this life-altering experience is what shaped me into the dedicated pupil and aspiring health care professional I am today. Darnell-Cookman High school had an extremely small community with nearly seventy students in my graduating
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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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their primary caregivers or the persons to who they are most strongly attached. The Stranger Situation study was used by Ainsworth and Bell (1970) to measuring attachment. The aim was to see how infant act under conditions of mild stress. Three participants were mothers‚ infant and stranger. A child is placed in 8 different situations and combining mothers and stranger connects
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Bowlby’s theory is wide-ranging and provided a basis of research into the nature of early relationships‚ and so established a good foundation for Mary Ainsworth’s attachment theory. Ainsworth took her theory a step further with the Strange Situation‚ which splits attachment into three types; secure avoidant and resistant (Ainsworth‚ 1964). Ainsworth’s Strange Situation involved providing an unfamiliar but interesting environment where the child was motivated to explore but needed to feel secure. An observer
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