attachment Flashcards
Care giver infant interaction
mutual exchanges between caregivers and infants
reciprocity
care giver interaction is reciprocal as both infant and caregiver are responding to eachothers signals
international synchrony
caregiver and infant reflect both actions and emotions of the other
Attachment can be recognised through:
proximity seeking
separation distress
secure base behavior
Reciprocity
- mutual responses
- one after the other
- Brazelton compared it to a dance
reciprocity research
condon and sander had infants be filmed while reacting to a clip of adult voices. the infants coordinated their actions in time with the adult speaking, like a conversation.
interactional synchrony
at the same time
interactional synchrony research
meltzoff and moore conducted a series of observations where an adult displayed one of three facial expressions to which the baby matched
care giver infant interaction evaluation
- infants cannot articulate how they feel and so it is hard to know if their imitation is conscios and deliberate.
+research into care giver infant interaction has good validity, infants do not know they are being studied and will not change behaviour
stages of attachment
Asocial stage
indiscriminate stage
specific stage
Schaffer and emmersons research on attachment
observations were conducted in participants homes, observing attachment and conducting interviews. Participants were working class families from glasgow.
attachements showed to replicate the stages of attachment
Evaluation of stages of attachment research
+ the study has good external validity, natural to parents and children and applicable to every day
- as observations were carried out by mothers, the results may have been prone to bias.
