A - Caregiver-infant interaction

Question 1

what occurs during the Tronick - still face experiment

Answer 1

• a woman sits down and plays with her baby (1 year)
• she gives a greeting to one baby and it is reciprocated
• working to coordinate their emotions and intentions
• mother is asked to not respond to the baby who tires to engage the mother

Question 2

what were the results of the still face experiment

Answer 2

the baby screeches and reacts to the negative emotion like turning away

Question 3

AO3: ✓ observations are highly controlled…

Answer 3

through analysis, increased validity by control of extraneous variables

Question 4

AO3: X difficult to reliably…

Answer 4

test infant behaviour

Question 5

AO3: X doesn’t tell us one purpose…

Answer 5

• Feldman (2012) displayed that synchrony and reciprocity describes behaviours not the purpose of the behaviour
• research implies that mother-infant attachment helps with empathy but foes not give reasons behind the behaviour

Question 6

what is does the Meltzoff and Moore (1977) include

Answer 6

• it is a study on interactional synchrony
• infants as young as 2 weeks can imitate facial expressions and hand gestures made by adults

Question 7

what does the M+M study suggest

Answer 7

that imitation is an innate ability that helps infants form attachments

Question 8

what does the M+M study explain

Answer 8

how infants and parents develop a shared sense of timing and rhythm

Question 9

AO3: ✓ the results were…

Answer 9

in support of interactional synchrony

Question 10

AO3: ✓ babies cannot…

Answer 10

be aware of demand characteristics so act truly

Question 11

AO3: X hard to differentiate between…

Answer 11

general activity and imitation

Question 12

AO3: X there was a…

Answer 12

failure to replicate the experiment by Marian et al (1996)