Attachment

Question 1

Proximity

Answer 1

People try to stay physically close to those whom they are attached

Question 2

Separation distress

Answer 2

People are distressed when an attachment figure leaves their presence

Question 3

Secure base behaviour

Answer 3

Even when we are independent of our attachment figures, we tend to make regular contact with them

Question 4

Reciprocity

Answer 4

A description of how two people interact, caregiver-infant interaction is reciprocal in which both caregiver and baby respond to eachothers signals and each illicit a response from the other

Question 5

Brazelton et al

Answer 5

Caregiver-infant interaction is like a dance because in couples dance, each responds to the others moves

Question 6

Interactional syncrony

Answer 6

Caregiver and baby reflect bith the actions or emotions of the other and do this in a coordinated way

Question 7

Meltzoff and moores study

Answer 7

In babies as young as 2 weeks, three facial expressions or three specific gestures mirrored adults and had significant association

Question 8

Isabella et al

Answer 8

30 mothers and babies together, assessed degree of synchrony, assessed quality of mother child attachment, high levels of synchrony associated with high attachment

Question 9

Evaluation of caregiver infant interactions

Answer 9

Don’t know whether behaviour is conscious or deliberate
Good validity- no demand characteristics
Do not know they are being studied
Unnatural setting may effect behaviour
Observation bias
Ethics of child participants