Attachment Flashcards
What is reciprocity?
When each person responds to the other and elicits a response from them. ‘Turn taking’ e.g. a baby smiles then care giver responds and this elicits a response from the baby
What are alert phases
When a baby signals, e.g. makes eye contact to show they are ready for interaction, mothers respond 2/3 of the time depending on mothers skill and external factors e.g stress.
This becomes more frequent at 3 months both baby and mother pay close attention to each others verbal signals and facial expressions
What is active involvement?
The idea that like care givers, babies also take active an active role, e.g initiating interactions, like a dance both ‘taking turns’
What is intersectional synchrony?
When 2 people carry the same action out simultaneously. Baby and care givers actions mirror each others ‘temporal co-ordination of micro-level social behaviour’
When does synchrony begin?
Starts in babies as young as 2 weeks old. Adults displayed one of three facial expressions or significant gestures, babies mirrored with significant association
What is the importance of attachment?
Isabella, Interactional synchrony is important in caregiver-infant attachment, high degrees of synchrony associated with higher quality of mother-baby attachment (emotional intensity of relationship)
What are some positives to the idea of caregiver-baby interactions?
There are filmed observations
Controlled in a laboratory (no distractions)
Film and be recorded and analysed later
Can’t miss key behaviour in babies
Higher inter-rater reliability
No demand characteristics by babies (unlike overt observation)
Good reliability and validity
What are the percentages of infant attachments to fathers?
•3% primary attachment to solely father
•27% father&mother
•After 18 months 75% have an attachment to father
Schafer & Emerson
What are the stages of infant attachment
Schafer & Emerson
Stage 1 Asocial
Stage 2 indiscriminate
Stage 3 specific attachment
Stage 4 multiple attachments
