Human Growth and Development / Unit 4 HGD 0488 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Avoidant and Ambivalent Attachment
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The idea
Avoidant infants show little distress at separation and little response at reunion; ambivalent, or resistant, infants cling, are very distressed, and resist comfort.
In practice
One toddler ignoring the returning parent; another rushing to her, then pushing away in anger.
Where people slip
US estimates put avoidant attachment at about twenty percent and ambivalent at ten to fifteen percent.
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