Does anyone remember the different types of infant attachment, and the characteristics of each?

Question

There's...

Secure attachment, resistant attachment, avoidant attachment, and...

I can't, for the life of me, think of the fourth one.

I am asking for the characteristics, in hopes of jogging my memory a bit.

Don't ask why I am asking this; it just popped into my head.

Answer 1

http://icp.psych.udel.edu/parents/attach...

Answer 2

HELP attachment, help... get away....far...far away......

hope this helped...lmao

Answer 3

Are there supposed to be four?

"Contemporary attachment research is based on the assumption that at least three types of infant attachment patterns exist: secure, avoidant, and resistant."

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cp...

Here's the closest description of the four types I can find.

"Ainsworth described three major categories of attachment: secure, anxious/avoidant, and anxious/ambivalent. After years of additional research by many investigators, Mary Main and Judith Solomon in 1986 identified a fourth pattern: anxious/disorganized/disoriented."  http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/Reports/inatr...

This site talks more in general about the four types.

http://www.ces.purdue.edu/providerparent...

Edit: The Sh*t, next time you decide to plagerize a website don't call yourself a PhD.  Ugg!  You must really know how to use copy and paste!

Answer 4

You have secure attachment where the child seems upset when the mother leaves but settles down when in friendly company.   They are happy when the mother/parent returns.

Then you avoidant attachment where the child is not bothered at all when the mother/parent leaves.  And they ignore the parents when they return.   They seem too independent.

Then there is ambivalent attachment where the children are VERY clingy.   They have a very difficult time when the parents leave and crying lasts for a long time.   They also latch onto to anyone and everyone for short periods of time.

Then there are disorganized relationships which can be broken down into two subtypes, Controlling Disorganized and Caregiving Disorganized.  These children do things that make no sense.  They sometimes speak very quickly and are hard to understand.  Very young children will freeze in their footsteps for no reason.  And they have a very difficult time understanding the feelings of other children.