Attachment - caregiver-infant interactions

Question 1

What is reciprocity?

Answer 1

A description of how 2 people interact. These interactions are reciprocal in that both caregiver and baby responds to each other’s signals and each elicits a response from one another

Question 2

What is interactional synchrony?

Answer 2

Caregiver and baby reflect both the actions and emotions of the other and do this in a co-ordinated way