Ainsworth's "Strange Situation" for Assessing Attachment Quality Has Been Criticized

question 75

Multiple Choice

Ainsworth's "Strange Situation" for assessing attachment quality has been criticized for

• A) creating exaggerated emotional reactions in young children
• B) providing an assessment of infant behavior that may not generalize to the home setting
• C) being of limited usefulness for characterizing the attachments of children much older than 2 years of age
• D) all of these

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