A: Caregiver Infant Interactions Flashcards
What is attachment?
Close two way emotional bond between two individuals in which each sees the other as essential for their emotional security
Human babies are ‘altricial’
What does this mean
Born at relatively early stage of development
What are precocial animals?
Animals born at advanced stage of development
What deepens a relationship?
Sensitivity to each others signals
How can you tell that an attachment had been made?
Bodily contact
Mimicking
Caregivers using high pitched song like, slow, repetitive voice
Reciprocity
Define reciprocity
One person responds to the other one taking turns like a conversation
Define intersectional synchronicity
When they carry out the same action simultaneously
Brazleton (1975)
Described mother infant interactions as a dance
Mother and children take turns initiating interactions
From birth babies and carers spend lots of time in intense and pleasurable interaction
Intersectional synchrony
Meltzoff and Moore (1977)
Adult displayed one of three facial expressions or hand movements
Dummy placed in infants moth during initial display to prevent any response
Dummy removed and child’s expression filmed
Infants as young as two to three weeks old imitated specific facial and hand gestures
Isabella et al (1989)
Securely attached mother infant pairs had shown more instances of international synchrony in the first year of life
What do high levels of synchrony show?
Emotional bond
International synchrony plays a part in strong attachment
Caregiver infant interactions are:
•non verbal
•specific to you and the baby
•different between mother+father
•cultural specific
