attachment 2 Flashcards
What is attachment defined as?
a two way emotional bond. each individuals sees each other as essential for there own emotional security.
Does attachment happen straight away?
no it takes a few months to develop.
What behaviours can we look at to recognise attachment?
proximity, separation distress, secure-base behaviour.
What is proximity?
people try to stay physically close to those whom they are attached to.
What is separation distress?
people are distressed when an attachment figure leaves their presence.
What is secure base behaviour?
even if we are dependent from our attachment figures we tend to make regular contact with them. Infants display secure-based behaviour when they regularly return to their attachment figure.
what are caregivers infant interactions?
It is the responsiveness of the caregiver to the infant’s signals that has profound effects on the attachment they form.
Are interactions important for the Child’s social development?
yes.
Define reciprocity
A description of how two people interact.
Mother-infant interaction is reciprocal in that both mother and infant respond to each others signals and each elicit a response from each other.
when does caregiver interaction become increasingly frequent
3 months
TURN TAKING
RECIPROCITY
Feldman 2007
talks about close attention to verbal signals and facial expressions.
what did Brazelton et al (1975) liken caregiver infant interaction to?
a dance
Condon and Sander (1974)
A: studied reciprocity in infants.
P: They analysed frame-by-frame recordings of infants’ movements while adults were talking.
F: found that infants coordinated their actions in sequences with adult’s speech to form a kind of turn-taking convo.
C: this supports the idea of reciprocity.
Define interactional synchrony…
Mother and infant reflect both of actions and emotions of then others and do this in a coordinated synchronised way.
