Mary Ainsworth's work on attachment and the Strange Situation
Across
- 4. (double-barrelled word) The type of attachment in which children are intensely distressed by their mothers' absence and push them away after receiving comfort.
- 5. '__________ anxiety' is the unease shown by the baby when left by the mother.
- 7. The type of attachment in which children are distressed by their mothers' absence but content when they are present.
- 8. Ainsworth found that securely attached children had mothers who enjoyed breastfeeding and enjoyed the company of their children, and called this '________ sensitivity'.
- 9. Ainsworth carried out the Strange Situation procedure using a _________ observation of a parent and child through a one-way mirror.
Down
- 1. (double-barrelled word) The type of attachment in which children are not distressed by their mothers' absence nor interested in them when they are present.
- 2. The US city where Ainsworth carried out her 1978 study.
- 3. The country where Ainsworth carried out her 9-month study on attachment in 1953.
- 5. '________ anxiety' is the unease shown by the baby when in the presence of someone unknown to them, with or without the mother.
- 6. The number of minutes that each stage of the Strange Situation procedure lasted.