Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 watches the child's responses from behind a one-way mirror. Secure children, it was thought, are less upset by the stranger's arrival and are easily comforted when the mother returns. The assumption...
...studies were conducted with children in high- quality day-care centers, usually at universities. Psychologists next began to look at more typical settings. The analysis of the strange-situation test changed, placing less emphasis on the child's reaction to the stranger than on its attitude toward the returning mother. Some initial results were unsettling. Day-care children were more likely to remain anxious even after the parent had come back. Some actively avoided their mother. Last September in a report published in the journal Zero to Three, Belsky reversed his earlier position. He concluded that babies who spend more...
...study conducted by Psychiatrist Peter Barglow of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital and colleagues supports this view. It concludes that even upper-middle-class one-year-olds, enjoying ostensibly the best substitute care -- at home with a nanny or baby sitter -- tend to be less securely attached to their mothers. "Is the mother by far the best caretaker for the child in the first year?" asks Barglow. "We think probably...
...have been lost in the apology. "When Bird makes a great play, it's due to his thinking," Thomas sighed. "All we do is run and jump. We never practice or give a thought to how we play. It's like I came dribbling out of my mother's womb...
...will know the voice right away, even if you have never heard it. A backcountry baritone canters along a line of swaying melody, taking it easy, taking everything easy. The prides, the miseries, the dalliances and departures that are the mother lode of country music, all are delved into and delivered up with the sidling grace of an unordained preacher taking the back door into honky-tonk heaven...