How is attachment assessed in preschoolers and school-aged children? Support your
response with examples.
What will be an ideal response?
To assess attachment processes in preschoolers, researchers have modified the Strange
Situation. For example, the researcher may require longer separations between children
and caregivers, and/or ask the child to complete a particularly demanding task without
the support of the parent. Attachment assessment in older children is more difficult
because over time our attachment experiences become more internalized. To tap these
cognitive models, researchers have contrived attachment-related drawings or stories
that require a response from the child. It is theorized that the individual differences in
reasoning tap important attachment processes and roughly parallel the infant
attachment categories originally proposed by Ainsworth.
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