• There is a room with a stranger.
  • The mother enters the room with the child, and there are some toys in the room.
  • The mother and the stranger will talk.
  • The child is lowed to move about the room.
  • They can observe the mother interacting with the other person or not.
  • They can play with toys or not.
  • But then at some point the mother leaves, and then at some point later, designated by the experimenter, the mother comes back.
  • What is measured in these studies is both how the child, the toddler, reacts to the mother leaving, and how the child reacts to the mother returning at the end of the experiment.
  • Oftentimes this will have two or three different phases where the mother will bring the child in, then leave, then come back in and leave.
  • There are also studies in which the behavior of the child with the stranger is also examined.

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