Attachment Flashcards

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What is attachment?

A

A close two-way emotional bond between two individuals in which each individual sees the other as essential for their own emotional security.

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What is the importance of caregiver interaction?
List nonverbal interactions.

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Help to strength and build the attachment between parent and child, the more sensitive the caregiver to the infants signals, the stronger the attachment becomes.
-reciprocity
-interactional synchrony

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What is reciprocity?
Give an example.

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Interactions between infant and caregiver spending time Interacting with each other. The caregiver and baby will respond to each other’s signals, each elicts a response from the other. They take turns.
E.g. baby cries and caregiver responds by cuddling, the baby babbles and the caregiver talks back.

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What is the alert phase?

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Babies have a periodic ‘alert phases’ in which they signal that they are ready for a spell of interaction.

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Research shows that mothers typically pick up on and respond to their babies’ alertness around __________ of the time (___________________,2007), although this varies according to the _____ of the mother and ________ factors such as stress (finegood et Al, 2016). From around _ months this interaction tends to become increasingly frequent and involves both mother and baby paying close attention to others ______ signals and facial expressions (feldman, 2007)

A

Two-thirds
Feldman and eidelman
Skill
External
Three
Verbal

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What is interactional synchrony?
What is it defined by Feldman as?

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When a mother and infant interact in a way that their actions mirror each other. Defined by Feldman, 2007 as a ‘temporal coordination of micro level social behaviour’ and ‘symbolic exchanges between parent and child’
Feldman suggests that it serves as a critical role 8n developmental outcomes in terms of self regulation, symbol use and the capacity of empathy (isabellq, 1989)

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