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Peer reviewedGoldman, Jacquelin; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1977
Twenty-eight 10-month-old infants were observed by two independent teams, one measuring activity in the home situation and one measuring attachment behaviors in a videotaped standard laboratory sequence. (MS)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedRoss, Gail; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Family Environment, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedEmde, Robert N. – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Considers contributions of Sigmund Freud and Rene Spitz to developmental psychology. Freud's contributions include his observations about play, perspectives on developmental processes, and ideas about unconscious mental activity. Spitz's contributions include his assessments of infants, perspectives on developmental processes, and his concept of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Individual Development
Peer reviewedFraiberg, Selma – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Describes characteristics of the attachment behavior of 10 infants blind from birth. Behaviors studied were smiling, discriminating tactile behaviors, stranger avoidance and distress, and separation and reunion behaviors. (BRT)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Blindness, Handicapped Children, Infant Behavior
Download full textWillis, E. Anne; Ricciuti, Henry N. – 1974
This longitudinal study was concerned with infants' reactions to being greeted by a caregiver upon arrival at the nursery, being left by the parent with the caregiver, and to reunion with the parents. Observations were made twice weekly in the natural setting of the nursery foyer where parents normally arrive with their infants. An affectivity…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Caregivers, Day Care
Peer reviewedLamb, Michael E. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Twenty 18-month-olds were observed interacting with their mothers and fathers in a structured laboratory setting. Assessed were affiliation and attachment behaviors when the infant was alone with either the mother or father or with both parents and when stranger entered. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Affiliation Need, Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Early Childhood Education
Tolan, William J.; Tomasini, Lisa – 1977
This study was intended to determine whether differences in maternal attitude and behavior relate to differences in infants' Strange Situation security classification. Subjects for the present study were 38 white middle-class mothers and their normal, 1-year-old infants (20 male, 18 female). Infants who were classified as to the quality of their…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Early Childhood Education
Ainsworth, Mary Salter – 1974
This intensive longitudinal study of mother-infant interaction during the first year of life focuses on the development of attachment. Data on 26 middle-class families were collected by five methods: (1) naturalistic observation of each mother-infant pair during 4-hour home visits, which occurred at 3-week intervals from the infants' 3rd to 54th…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Development, Day Care, Home Visits
