DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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Question
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the nature of attachment between caretakers and babies
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parental discipline styles in the first year of life
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aspects of purposeful exploration as the baby investigates a strange environment
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the nature of gestural communication between mothers and babies
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Detailed explanation-1: -The strange situation is a procedure devised by Mary Ainsworth in the 1970s to observe attachment in children, that is relationships between a caregiver and child. It applies to children between the age of nine and 30 months.
Detailed explanation-2: -The original method, developed by the influential psychologist Mary Ainsworth, is the laboratory procedure called the “Strange Situation” (Ainsworth et al 1978). It tests how babies or young children respond to the temporary absence of their mothers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Ainsworth’s attachment theory is a culmination of her work in Uganda, with the Baltimore Project, and John Bowlby’s theories of research and development. Her theory states that children and infants need to develop a secure dependence on their parents before seeking unfamiliar situations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ainsworth’s Strange Situation (1970) used structured observational research to assess & measure the quality of attachment. It has 8 pre-determined stages, including the mother leaving the child, for a short while, to play with available toys in the presence of a stranger & alone and the mother returning to the child.