attachment Flashcards
1
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what is a bond
A
set of feelings that ties one person to another
2
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what is an attachment
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a close two-way emotional bond between individuals in which everyone sees the other as essential for their own emotional stability
3
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how do infants and caregivers interact/communicate
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- bodily contact
- mimicking
- caregiverse
- international synchrony
- reciprocity
4
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reciprocity
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- An interaction shows reciprocity when each person responds to the other and elicits a response from them
- birth - 3 months
- E.G infant smiles at caregivers in response, caregiver says something, smiles or laughs back at them
5
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alert phases
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- signals babies show that their ready for interaction
- feldman = 2/3 mothers pick up on it
6
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active involvement
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- Babies and caregivers can initiate interactions and take turns in doing so
7
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interactional synchrony
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- The temporal co-ordination of micro-level social behaviour
- Feldman – mother and baby mirror each other
8
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synchrony begins
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- Meltzoff and Moore – observed the beginning of synchrony as young as 2 weeks old
- Association with adult pulling different faces and baby mimicking it
9
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importance for attachment
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- for the development of caregiver-infant attachment
- Isabella observed 30 mothers and babies together and assessed the degree of synchrony
- High levels of synchrony = better mother – baby attachment
10
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evaluation of caregiver-infant interaction
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- filmed observation
- difficulty observing babies
- development importance
- counterpoint
11
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filmed observation
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- filmed in lab
- control of distractions
- recorded and analysed later
- babies don’t know being filmed - no demand characteristics
- data is reliable and valid
12
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difficulty observing babies
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- interpret behaviour
- many are immobile, movements are subtle
- cant be certain behaviours seen have special meaning
13
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developmental importance
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- may observe irrelevant behaviour
- feldman ( names given to behaviours with no explanation)
- cant be sure reciprocity and synchrony are important to child development
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15
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developmental importance counterpoint
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- isabella - early interaction are important
- attachment of international synchrony predicted the development of good quality attachment
