Care-giver Infant Interaction

Question 1

What is attachment

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Why is social interaction important for attachment

Answer 2

Interactions are the building blocks for attachment to occur.

Question 3

What are the two social interactions

Answer 3

Reciprocity
Interactions synchrony

Question 4

What is intersectional synchrony

Answer 4

Caregiver and infant mirror each others actions and emotions.

Question 5

Reciprocity study

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Interactional synchrony study

Answer 6

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)

Question 7

Evaluation of testing infant behaviour

Answer 7

✖️- 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.