Word: ainsworth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more women went to work and more babies went into day care, experts began to re-examine the question. One problem quickly emerged: how to measure the emotional well-being of a child too young to be interviewed. The answer, devised in 1969 by University of Virginia Psychologist Mary Ainsworth, was the strange-situation test, usually conducted on children twelve to 18 months old. It consists of a series of episodes in which the child is alternately visited and left by its mother and by a stranger, culminating with the stranger's departure and the mother's return. The researcher...
Crimson, 74-52 at Ainsworth...