1. Script-like Representations of Secure Base Experience
Chairs:
Harriet S. Waters
Everett Waters
State University of New York
at Stony Brook

2. Processing Complex Materials
A “Going To Work” Script
Wake up
Shut off alarm
Shower (sub-script)
Get dressed
Eat breakfast
(sub-script)
Get things together
Car
(sub-script)

3. Content of A Generalized (Dyadic)
Secure Base Script
Constructive engagement
Obstacle
Need help
Sub-script:
Signal
Seek proximity
Detect signal
Interpret correctly
Help offered
and effective
Comforting
Sub-script:
Offered
Accepted
Effective
Constructive
engagement
re-establish

4. The Prompt-Word Secure Base
Script Assessment
Baby’s Morning
Mother hug teddy bear
baby smile lost
play story found
blanket pretend nap

5. The Prompt-Word Secure Base
Script Assessment
Jane & Bob’s Camping Trip
Jane tent campfire
Bob wind shadow
bags collapse sounds
hurry upset hug

6. Hypotheses
Paper 1: Is mother’s knowledge of the secure base script significantly related to her infant’s security?
Paper 2: Are maternal attachment representations related to the process of teaching the secure base script?
Paper 3: How do script-like representations of important relationships emerge during adolescence?

7. Hypotheses
Paper 4: Do adolescent and adult males have knowledge and access to a secure base script?
Paper 5: Script-like representation of generalized and relationship specific secure base scripts?
Paper 6: Do adults in diverse cultures have script-like| representations of their secure base experience?