Mr Henderson runs a local daily play centre for toddlers and infants aged between nine months and four years. He has noticed that when parents drop their children off, some children become highly distressed and find it very difficult to settle.
He has also observed that the toddlers show very different behaviors when their parents return to collect them at the end of the session. Some of the children run to their parent with open arms and are easily comforted, whereas others completely ignore their parent and continue playing. A third group of children demand to be picked up but then kick and push their parents away in apparent anger. Mr Henderson also notes that the parents themselves interact with their children in highly contrasting ways.
Evaluate Ainsworth's types of attachment with reference to the behaviors observed at the play centre.
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