Attachment Flashcards
What is an attachment ?
A close two way emotional bond betweentwoindividuals
Caregiver infant interactions
Reciprocity → each person responds to the other eliciting responses, caregiver responds to baby baby respond back _ turn taking
Interaction synchrony - where the baby mirrors the caregivers actions and emotions
→ meltzoff and Moore, 3 expressions, babies respond filmed and labelled results showed the babies imitated the adults - no prompt, wait for dummy, not practised
→ tropics still face experiment _ since of relationship between expression and emotion
Evaluation
→ interactions filmed, babies do not know they’re being filmed
→ hard to interpret behavior
Does not show why it helps babies develop.
Stages of attachment
Asocial indiscriminate specific multiple