The attachement theory was later extended by another developmental psychologist, Mary Ainsworth, as the psychologists Huffman and Dowdell (2015) indicates in their book Psychology in Action, Ainsworth looked attachment as “secure base” for the ability of children to explore instinctively at the mother is a place to come back for reassurance and safety (p. 306). In addition, using “the Strange Situation Procedure” (SSP), Ainsworth and other researchers described four attachement styles namely securely attached, insecurely avoidant, insecurely ambivalent and disorganized disoriented. Consequently, infants with secure attachement styles generally had caregivers who were
The attachement theory was later extended by another developmental psychologist, Mary Ainsworth, as the psychologists Huffman and Dowdell (2015) indicates in their book Psychology in Action, Ainsworth looked attachment as “secure base” for the ability of children to explore instinctively at the mother is a place to come back for reassurance and safety (p. 306). In addition, using “the Strange Situation Procedure” (SSP), Ainsworth and other researchers described four attachement styles namely securely attached, insecurely avoidant, insecurely ambivalent and disorganized disoriented. Consequently, infants with secure attachement styles generally had caregivers who were