Care-giver Infant Interaction Flashcards

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What is attachment

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A two way emotional bond
-between two individuals see the other as essential for their own emotional security.

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Why is social interaction important for attachment

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Interactions are the building blocks for attachment to occur.

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What are the two social interactions

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Reciprocity
Interactions synchrony

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What is intersectional synchrony

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Caregiver and infant mirror each others actions and emotions.

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Reciprocity study

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Tronick - still face experiment
-mother plays with baby then stops responding to baby for 2 minutes and baby becomes distressed.

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Interactional synchrony study

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Meltzoff and Moor-
-Interactional synchrony as young as 2 weeks old
- adult open mouth and stick their tongue out (distinctive behaviour) and infant mirrord behaviour.
- baby’s would even take dummy out their mouth to copy
- suggests biological attachment (innate)

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Evaluation of testing infant behaviour

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✖️- we don’t know if behaviour is deliberate or not - behaviour observed could be normal behaviour of baby and not in response to care giver .

✔️- lab experiments so are well controlled and replicable so results are more reliable and objective.
✔️- babies don’t know if they’re being recorded is natural behbauour - no demand characteristics.

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