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Mary Ainsworth placed babies into a strange situation and observed the babies’ reactions when the parents left and then returned. What developmental concept was Ainsworth studying?

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Mary Ainsworth placed babies into a strange situation and observed the babies’ reactions when the parents left and then returned. What developmental concept was Ainsworth studying?

(A) parenting style
(B) motor development
(C) infant reflexes
(D) attachment
(E) assimilation

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(D) attachment

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Ainsworth categorized three different types of attachment (secure, avoidant, and anxious/ambivalent) by observing infant reactions after parents left and returned while the infant was in a “strange situation” (a room the infant had not been in before).


 
Posted : 16/06/2024 8:20 am
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