Annette asked: I'm curious: Do any of you on this listserve teach the Ainsworth 
studies in any depth/breadth? In intro? In dev psych? I think the problem may 
have to do with the 1-semester/quarter format for most college intro psych 
courses prohibiting such in-depth analysis.

We have the luxury of taking a year to teach the introductory course so we do 
describe Ainsworth's work in some depth in that course (typically one class 
meeting). I devote at least a week of my developmental course to describing 
that work along with some of the criticisms. (My interpretation of the strange 
situation is that it essentially measures a secure base phenomenon along with 
the temperament of the two members of the dyad and cultural expectations of the 
caregiver.) By the end of that course I try to leave students with at least a 
little skepticism about the whole attachment industry. 

Dennis


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