As you will have gathered, not all children attached to their caregivers in the same way, meaning that there is clearly more than one attachment type.
On noticing this Ainsworth and Bell devised "The Strange Situation" which was a controlled observation to see how children responded to a set of scenarios consisting of their mother and a stanger, these scenarios involved leaving the child with the stranger, leaving the child on their own etc...
Ainsworth and Bell were interested in the 4 of the child's behaviours1. Separation anxiety
2. Stranger anxiety
3. Reunion behaviour
4. Willingness to explore.
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