Child Practical

Question 1

What was the aim of the practical?

Answer 1

To investigate the relationship between the attachment to a primary caregiver and relationships in adolescence

Question 2

What was the sample (3)?

Answer 2

• Opportunity sample
• 20 teenagers aged 17-18
• Males and females

Question 3

What was the procedure (4)?

Answer 3

• Gave out 20 individual questionnaires to adolescents (e.g. do you usually discuss problems with your primary caregiver?)
• Each given 5 minutes to complete it
• Debriefed on questionnaire and its purpose
• Scale 1-7. 1=strongly disgaree, 7=strongly agree

Question 4

How were the results analysed (4)?

Answer 4

• Used Spearmans Rho
• Added up the totals
• Found the significance level
• Put them into a scatter graph

Question 5

Give 4 quantitative results

Answer 5

• Child total - 447
• Adult total - 481

Spearmans Rho - 0.89

-Result was significant

Question 6

Give a conclusion to the study

Answer 6

There is a signifcant correlation between childhood relationships and later relationships.

This is due to the internal working model and its role as a basis of relationship

Question 7

Give one strength and weakness of the sample used

Answer 7

• Used both males and females

- All adolescents used were from the North East

Question 8

Give one strength and weakness of the reliability of the study

Answer 8

• All researchers worked in groups - high inter-rater reliability
• Didn’t carry out any previous trials - all done first time

Question 9

Give one strength and weakness of the application of the study

Answer 9

–Can be applied to psychological research into maternal deprivation

-Socially sensitive - blames parents for the behaviours of their child

Question 10

Give one strength and weakness of the validity of the study

Answer 10

• Measured what it intended to - high internal validity

- Only quantiative data

Question 11

Give one strength and weakness of the ethics of the study

Answer 11

• All participants were kept confidential

- Social sensitivity - lack of protection from harm as it may be a sensitive subject