PSY-33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Attachment In Adults, Mirror Test
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Correlation between early attachment and attachment in later point in time is app r = 70-75% agreement between an infant"s secure or insecure attachment in. Strange situation and their attachment in later life. Adult attachment interview (aai): to assess and adult"s attachment pattern. Adults asked to recall their childhood memories and interactions w/ parent. Participants fell into 1/3 categories of attachment styles. Research hypothesized that people will have different expectations of romantic love depending on their adult attachment style (their internal working models) People who described themselves as secure described their most important love experience as happy, friendly, and trusting. Believed romantic feelings of love come and go over course. Avoidant lovers demonstrated a fear of intimacy and relationships marked by of a relationship emotional highs and lows and jealousy. Believed romantic head-over-heels love depicted in movies doesn"t exist. Said true romantic love seldom lasts and rare to find someone to actually fall in love with.
