Question

The Strange Situation Test involves a mother and an infant and a specific set of procedures including having mom leave the infant in a room by themselves and then monitoring closely the child's reaction when they are reunited with mom. What is this designed to evaluate?

Answer 1

Answer:

secure attachment relationships.

Explanation:

Secure attachment relationship is a term in social psychology that describes or determines how children show some distress when their mothers leaves but are able to compose themselves knowing that their caregiver will return.

Developed by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, they propounded a theory known as attachment theory which is divided into secure attachment, ambivalent attachment, avoidant attachment and disorganized attachment.

It has been suggested that infants with secure attachment feel protected by their caregivers or mothers, and they know that they can depend on them to return.

Hence, in this case, the test is designed to evaluate secure attachment relationship.