What’s on the Attachment poster
A 4-row table: Type · On separation · On reunion.
Classifications from the Strange Situation procedure.
- Secure (B) — Distressed — Comforted quickly, returns to play
- Insecure-avoidant (A) — Little distress — Avoids the caregiver
- Insecure-resistant (C) — Very distressed — Seeks and resists comfort
- Disorganised (D) — Inconsistent — Confused, contradictory behaviour
Secure attachment is around 60–65% in most samples, but the distribution varies substantially across cultures.
Questions about the Attachment poster
- What’s on the Attachment poster?
- A 4-row table: Type · On separation · On reunion. Classifications from the Strange Situation procedure. Secure (B) — Distressed — Comforted quickly, returns to play; Insecure-avoidant (A) — Little distress — Avoids the caregiver; Insecure-resistant (C) — Very distressed — Seeks and resists comfort; Disorganised (D) — Inconsistent — Confused, contradictory behaviour. Secure attachment is around 60–65% in most samples, but the distribution varies substantially across cultures.
- Who is the Attachment poster for?
- Attachment belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning developmental can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Attachment poster?
- Ainsworth's Strange Situation defines the types. Sensitivity of caregiving predicts them best. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Attachment belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Attachment?
- Adolescence, Cognitive Ageing and Bowlby sit alongside Attachment in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AdolescenceCognitive AgeingBowlby
- Is the Attachment poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Attachment downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Attachment poster print at?
- Attachment is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Attachment loses nothing.Printing guide
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