Attachment- Key Researchers Flashcards
Feldman & Eidelman (2007)
Found that babies have periodic ‘alert phases’ and that mothers typically pick up on and respond to this around two- thirds of the time.
Feldman (2007)
From 3 months, reciprocity becomes more frequent and involves close attention to verbal signals and facial expressions.
Tronick et al (1979)
Asked mothers who were in dialogue with their baby to stop moving and maintain a static, unsmiling expression on their faces. Babies would try and tempt the mother into interactions. They would become increasingly puzzled and distressed when their smile would not elicit the usual response.
Babies expect and anticipate reciprocal responses to their smiles.
Brazelton et al (1975)
Both mother and child can initiate interactions and they appear to take turns in doing so.
Meltzoff and Moore (1977)
Observed the beginnings of interactional synchrony as young as two weeks old.they found that babies could imitate both facial and manual gestures of an adult. 12-21 day old infants could imitate lip protrusion, mouth opening and tongue protrusion.
Argued that the ability to imitate serves as an important building block for later social and cognitive development.
Schaffer and Emerson (1964)
The majority of babies became attached to their mother first (around 7 months) and within a few weeks or months formed secondary attachment with their father by the age of 18 months.
[parent-infant attachment]
Grossman (2002)
Longitudinal study locking at parents’ behaviour and now it relates to quality of attachment in teens.
Quality of infant attachment with mothers was related to children’s attachment in adolescence suggesting that father attachment was less important. However, quality of fathers’ play with infants was related to the quality of adolescent attachments.
Suggests that fathers have different role in attachment- one that is more related to play and stimulation and less to do with nurturing.
[role of the father]
