My Contribution

• Conceptualized the study

• Conducted secondary research to understand how attachment develops in infancy and the role it plays in socio-emotional development.

• Developed a novel stimulus and created questionnaires

• Coded infant behavior

• Recruited participants

• Managed and analyzed data

• Presented the findings

Tools used:

• Qualtrics

• Adobe Premiere Pro

• IBM SPSS Statistics

• Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint

• Focus

• Psychopy 2 (Stimuli Presentation)

• Zoom Video Conference

• Google Chrome Remote Desktop Control

Aim

• To discover if infants used their attachment representations to interpret and judge parenting behaviors

Hypothesis

• Infants will expect a motherly figure to react caringly towards a crying infant

• Based on expectations, infants will develop a preference for the responsive (R) versus unresponsive (U) motherly figure

Procedure:

• 12-to-13-month-old infants watched four pseudo-randomized videos (Figure 1; two adults act responsively or unresponsively to a crying baby)

• At test, infants view headshots of the adults in a pseudo-randomized order. Their looking time - or how long they looked at each image - is measured in seconds

• Infants' mothers completed a questionnaire that assessed their responsivity to the distressed infant