... avoidant-insecure and 31 per cent were classified as resistant-secure. Similarly, Grossman also replicated the SST but this time in Germany, as opposed to Japanese, the SST in Germany showed a large number of avoidant-insecure children and very few-resistant insecurely attached children. In both experiments the findings showed roughly 70% securely attached children and 30% insecure. 3. Critically consider the use of the strange situation technique as a method for studying young children's attachments. Scaffer and Emerson conducted a study of the development of attachments in order to investigate the way in which infant's behaviours change over time. Ainsworth and Bell devised a method called the strange situation technique (SST) in which 100 middle-class American infants and their mothers took part. A method of controlled observation was developed as follows: Mother and child introduced to a room (in which child can investigate toys); Stranger enters room; Mother leaves room; Mother returns; Mother ...

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