Attachment Lab

Development Issues: Attachment Lab

Part 1

Review pg 565-566 of your text book and familarize yourself with the three types of infant attachment:

Secure
Anxious/ Resistant
Anxious/ Avoidant

Next, visit this website which gives mothers ideas for fostering attachment with their children.

Choose two of the "games" and answer the following:
1. Compare them to the attributes typically described in the secure attachment style
2. Based on the description of the game and what you know about secure attachment, what aspect of this game is important for fostering development or which aspect of secure attachment is it tapping?

Part 2

Review the section on Attachment and Later Adjustment on pgs 566-567 of your textbook. Studies which demonstrate a link between attachment style and well-being later in life are largely correlational. That is, they show that people who tend to have one type of attachment also tend to have higher well-being later in life. Therefore, claims about attachment causing better well-being can not be made.

3. Think about this issue and possible alternative explanations such as another variable which might influence both the IV and DV. Write your alternative explanations.

Turn In:

Your answers to the three questions

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