Instructions: 

 

Please answer the questions below on separate sheets of paper. Please type up your double space response in Times New Roman 12-point font. (Set your margins to the default mode.) The end paper should be roughly 3-4 pages long. (No more than 5 pages, maximum.) You must hand in the first assignment by the due date in your syllabus. 

 

If you are absent from class due to a legitimate reason, you may email the paper to me by the end of the day it is due. No late papers will be accepted. 

 

You must number all of your answers as well! Points will be taken off it you don't!

 

 

Your score for a question increases if your answer:

 

-is correct and supported by reasoning and evidence

- contains supporting details (for example: pointing out lines in the article that support your answer or explaining your reasons for putting down an answer further)

-is grammatically correct (spelled correctly, uses correct punctuation, uses vocabulary properly)

-answers the question fully (you answer every single part of the question with details)

-Number your answers!

 

 

 

 

Instructions: 

 

For this writing assignment, you will conduct a short interview (roughly 10 - 20 minutes) with an adult who grew up with at least one living and present parent. This interview is a very short, modified version of Mary Main's Adult Attachment Interview Protocol. You will take notes on the answers that your participating interviewee (who can be anyone except yourself) gives you and then give a summary of their answers in Questions 1 - 3. In questions 4 & 5, you will be asked to analyze the answers given to you during the interview, using information from class and from your understanding of attachment theory.

 

Questions 1 - 3: Interview Questions [Your answers should be overview of their response]

 

1a. Could you start by helping me get oriented to your early family situation, and where you lived and so on? If you could tell me where you were born, whether you moved around much, what your family did at various times for a living? [Get a general sense of their childhood].

 

1b. Can you talk about most important relationships now? Who are you closest to in your life? (Ie. family, friends, romantic partner, etc.) How would you generally describe your relationships? [Get a general sense of their current important relationships].

 

2. I'd like to ask you to choose five adjectives or words that reflect your relationship with your mother starting from as far back as you can remember in early childhood-- age 5 to 12 is fine. I know this may take a bit of time, so go ahead and think for a minute...then I'd like to ask you why you chose them. I'll write each one down as you give them to me. [Write down both their words AND their explanations for why they chose the words].

 

3. Now I'd like to ask you to choose five adjectives or words that reflect your childhood relationship with your father, again starting from as far back as you can remember in early childhood--as early as you can go, but again say, age 5 to 12 is fine. I know this may take a bit of time, so go ahead and think again for a minute...then I'd like to ask you why you chose them. I'll write each one down as you give them to me. [Write down both their words AND their explanations for why they chose the words].

 

Question 4 & 5: Analysis Question

 

4. Based on the results of this interview, what do you feel was the primary attachment style (secure, insecure avoidant, insecure anxious/ambivalent, and/or disorganized) that your interviewee experienced with their parents (mother and father) as a child? Did the person experience different attachment styles with their mother and with their father? Why do you believe this is attachment style (or styles) they experienced? Explain your answers and analysis of their attachment styles thoroughly. 

 

5. Based on the results of the interview, how do you think that your interviewee's childhood attachment style might influence them in the present day? What kind of attachment style (or styles) might they have toward their important relationship partners (family, friends, romantic partners, etc.) now? [Be sure to define their current attachment style(s)?] Are they repeating any of their attachment patterns from the past or have they changed over time?