Attachment

Question 1

Attachment

Answer 1

a strong reciprocal emotional bond between an infant and primary care giver

Question 2

Reciprocity

Answer 2

a description of how two people interact - turn taking

Question 3

How is caregiver infant interaction reciprocal?

Answer 3

both caregiver and baby respond to each others signals and elicit a response from the other

Question 4

Alert Phases

Answer 4

Babies have periodic alert phases in which they signal that they are ready for a spell of interaction (e.g. making eye contact)

Question 5

Feldman and Eidelman (2007)

Answer 5

research shows that mothers usually pick up and respond to their baby’s alertness around 2/3 of the time.

This varies according to external factors e.g. stress (Finegood et al 2016)

Question 6

What 3 behaviours are displayed when an attachment is developing

Answer 6

1. Proximity
2. Separation Distress
3. Secure base behaviour

Question 7

Proximity

Answer 7

People try to stay physically close to their attachment figures

Question 8

Separation Distress

Answer 8

people show signs of anxiety when an attachment figure leaves their presence

Question 9

Secure-base behaviour

Answer 9

even when were independent of our attachment figure, we tend to make regular contact with them e.g. babies returning to AF whilst playing

Question 10

Interactional Synchrony

Answer 10

occurs when the caregiver and baby reflect both actions and emotions of the other in a coordinated /synchronised way

Question 11

Meltzoff and Moore (1983)

Answer 11

demonstrated that interactional synchrony occurred with infants imitating facial expressions, tongue protrusions and mouth openings from an adult model when only 3 days- 2 weeks old

Question 12

Codon and Sander (1974)

Answer 12

children can synchronise their movements with the sound of an adults voice (demonstrated with Brazleton)