Attachment - Evaluation of Caregiver-Infant Interactions (AO3)

Question 1

Do mother-infant interactions have a ‘special meaning’?

Answer 1

There’s no way for certain to know that behaviours in mother-infant interactions have a special meaning
- infant movements are hard to identify, because there’s no way of knowing what they could mean

Question 2

Why is it a strength of controlled observations capturing fine detail?

Answer 2

The baby won’t change their behaviours because they are unaware they’re being recorded
- reduces demand characteristics
High external and ecological validity

Question 3

Feldman

Answer 3

Synchrony and reciprocity simply describe behaviours that occur at the same time

Question 4

Why do we need an explanation of of the purpose of caregiver-infant interactions?

Answer 4

There needs to be an explanation as to why synchrony and reciprocity occur in infant’s behaviour

Question 5

Le vine et al

Answer 5

Reported than Kenyan mothers have little physical interactions or physical contact with their infants, but such infants do have a high proportion of secure attachments

Question 6

How does ethnocentric research affect the validity of the research into this area?

Answer 6

Children from a different ethnicity or country may be treated differently or act differently to other ethnicities
- an example of being ethnocentric
—> sending certain groups into care
—> Germans being raised to be independent