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Evaluate the 'Strange Situation'. In 1971 and 1978, Ainsworth reported her findings from the Baltimore study of attachment. Ainsworth's main interest was in individual differences between mother-child pairs regarding the quality of their attachment. The Baltimore study was longitudinal. Ainsworth et al visited 26 mother-infant pairs at home every 3-4 weeks for the baby's first year of life. Each lasted 3-4 hours. Both interviews and naturalistic observation were used. But observation played a very strong role. To make sense of the vast amount of data collected for each pair, Ainsworth needed some standard against which to compare their observations. The STRANGE SITUATION was the standard they chose. Ainsworth and Wittig (1969) had devised this earlier. It was made of 8 episodes and each one lasted about 3 minutes, excluding the first one which lasted about 30 seconds. The 8 episodes of the Strange Situation: Episode Persons present Brief description 1 Mother, baby, observer Observer introduces mother and...

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