Psychology 2040A/B Lecture 8: Nov 18 - Parenting

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J Bruce Morton

Document Summary

I: parenting and attachment: caregiver hypothesis (cid:224) infant attachment related to quality of caregiving, might quality of caregiving relate to mother"s own attachment status, mary main (cid:224) adult attachment interview (aai, aai (cid:224) semi structured interview, interviewer has a certain set of questions they will ask the interviewee, questions depend on how the person answers, measures one"s state of mind vis vis attachment related issues, transcribed in enormous detail (e. g. , pause, duration of pause, coding of transcripts explain how it is they are responding, questions about childhood experiences. 1 to 2 hour duration: brief responses takes an hour, evaluative stance, to what extent does the interviewee show evidence that they thought about childhood experiences and put into autobiographical narrative, coding, not what is said, but how, coherence/believability, metacognitive awareness, aai classifications, dismissive. Children of authoritative parents: understand and accept social rules, sociable, self regulating, positive affect, strong self concept.