Separation anxiety 3.Reunion behaviour 4.Stranger Anxiety. One of the biggest weaknesses of Ainsworth’s experiment was that it may not just measure the attachment types of the infant but more so the quality of the relationship between the infant and caregiver. Second of all an experiment by Main and Weston found that infants behave differently depending on the parent that they are with. Therefore this could mean that SS doesn’t actually fully measure what it is meant to which automatically decreases the validity of the strange situation as a measurement of attachment type. On the other hand some may argue that the only relationship that is of relevance is your primary caregiver, which is the
The stranger then enters in an attempt to comfort the child then after a short while the mother would walk in and the stranger would leave inconspicuously. There results were as followed, Ainsworth found that 22% of the infants were avoidant-insecure, 66% were classed as having a secure attachment and 12% were resistant-insecure. In conclusion the study showed that there were three significant differences between infants and their form of attachment that can be placed in three categories. Also that the mother’s behavior may be significant in determining the infants attachment type as there was an association between the mother’s behavior and the child’s. Although this research has helped many psychologists (Erickson et al, Everett waters) with their experiments this one may not be very valid, because the results may not apply to infants with different cultures and beliefs, therefore we cannot generalize the results as it was only tested on middle-class US children.
In this paper “Do 15-month old infants understand false beliefs”, by Kristine H. Onishi and Renee Baillargeon. There has been evidence through experiments that infants from ages 2-4 have showed the understanding of false beliefs. The research suggested that infants understand the theory of mind- ability to attribute mental states such as beliefs, intent, knowledge,
There was an inability to deal with many different stimuli at once. They had a low tolerance for frustration and had difficulty structuring information. They were easily overwhelmed by new information (Rist, 1990). The same symptoms were repeatedly seen by the researchers who have followed crack-exposed infants from birth. The New York Times recently reported: The most severely affected children suffer from seizures, cerebral palsy, or mental retardation.
Do you think it is ethical to raise a child in a baby box? No personally I don’t feel it’s ethical to raise a child in a baby box. I just don’t like the idea, the infant doesn’t get to physically interact with people and it’s just plain stupid in my
She developed on Bowlby’s IWM theory by looking at the individual differences on types of attachments that may be formed to the primary care-giver. Ainsworth looked at children’s behaviour during separation from their mothers, beginning in Uganda and a later study in the US Ainsworth developed the strange situation experiment as a standard test to measure attachment in children (Oates, 2005). From her results she discovered three main times of attachment. Secure, insecure (split into sub-categories) and absent (Oates, 2005). The way in which the child behaves during the strange situation is determined by the behaviour the care giver presents to the child.
The Over Diagnosis of AD/HD in School Age Children Samantha K. Hanson Georgian Court University Abstract For this paper I researched the ways that children and adolescents are diagnosed with AD/HD and if there if the reason for the current rise in diagnosis are actually due to an increase of children suffering from this disorder. What I found was that many researchers are saying that children are being wrongfully diagnosed and many may be suffering from underlying disorders. I also found out that the sex of the child as well as the sex of the psychologist or psychiatrist plays a very big role in the diagnosis. Using the DSM I-V I researched what exactly qualifies a child to have AD/HD and also how many other disorders have the same
It is also true that these children are less supervised because they don’t receive the time and communication from their parents. Even though there is no evidence behind all this, these are the reasons why single-parent households are viewed as problematic for
A child treated this way learns to see themselves as unlovable and others as rejecting, and they tend to be apprehensive about relationships. A dismissive attachment style is one in which a parent/caregiver is disinterested in, rejects or abuses a child. Children who develop this style do not accept a parent's view of them as unlovable, unlike a fearful attachment. They think others are untrustworthy and they will develop a positive view of themselves, but have a low regard for others and relationships. An anxious/ambivalent style is more complex because it is fostered by inconsistent treatment by the parent/caregiver.
It only contributes pieces to the whole psychological puzzle. Some children act very differently from their supposed birth order characteristics and can have traits from other birth orders (The New Birth…34). Therefore, birth order speculations are not 100%, but the “law of averages” usually proves it (11). Birth order affects many different aspects in a person’s life. Not only can it influence the individual’s personality, but also who they will marry, what type of occupation they choose, what kind of parent they will be, and which child in their family