Attachment Flashcards
What is attachment?
A close two-way emotional bond between two individuals in which each individual sees the other as essential for their own emotional security.
What is the importance of caregiver interaction?
List nonverbal interactions.
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
What is reciprocity?
Give an example.
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.
What is the alert phase?
Babies have a periodic ‘alert phases’ in which they signal that they are ready for a spell of interaction.
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)
Two-thirds
Feldman and eidelman
Skill
External
Three
Verbal
What is interactional synchrony?
What is it defined by Feldman as?
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)