Explain how the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) assesses ...

[littleanan]

Explain how the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) assesses attachment style and how it relates to self-report measures.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Which of the following statements is NOT consistent with Vallacher and Wegner's work on action-identification?
 
  a. People are more likely to say they are eating dinner than putting food in their mouths and chewing.
  b. People regulate their activities in as high-level a way as they can.
  c. When people encounter difficulties, they tend to retreat to a lower-level identity to act.
  d. None of these answers are correct.

[choc0chan]

Answer to Question 1

The AAI is an interview that asks people to discuss early experiences with primary caregivers. The interviews are then coded, not so much for content but for coherence. Lack of childhood memories and/or idealization of caregivers are taken as signs of avoidance. Preoccupation with unresolved loss or abuse are taken as signs of anxious attachment. Although there is not a great degree of overlap between self-reports and results of the AAI, they both predict relevant outcomes.

Answer to Question 2

D