Attachment: caregiver and infant interactions

Question 1

What is caregiver infant interactions?

Answer 1

Communication and interactions between infant and parent

Question 2

What does the research say about caregiver infant interactions?

Answer 2

It says babies actively signal when they want to communicate

Question 3

What are the types of interactions?

Answer 3

Interactional synchrony
Reciprocity

Question 4

What is interactional synchrony?

Answer 4

Baby and mother mirror actions and emotions of each other

Question 5

What is reciprocity?

Answer 5

Mother and infant respond to each others signals and elicit a response
-from 3 months

Question 6

Who did the study in research to caregiver infant interactions?

Answer 6

Meltzoff and Moore

Question 7

What was the procedure of the study?

Answer 7

-adult displayed facial expression
-baby and adult we’re filmed from multiple angles
-watched in slow motion

Question 8

What were the strengths of the study?

Answer 8

-Inter-observer reliability (filming)
-no demand characteristics (babies cannot guess the aim of the study) so high validity

Question 9

What was a negative of the study?

Answer 9

-hard to investigate infant behaviour (behaviour cannot be followed up by questions for explanation)