care-giver infant interactions

Question 1

what is an attachment

Answer 1

a close two way emotional bond between individual in which each individual sees the other as essential for their own emotional security

Question 2

what are the caregiver-infant interactions

Answer 2

reciprocity
interactional synchrony

Question 3

reciprocity

Answer 3

• develops around 3 months
• each person responds to the other’s signals and responds to them

Question 4

interactional synchrony

Answer 4

the infant and mother mirror the actions and emotions of each other in a synchronised way

Question 5

evaluation of caregiver-infant interactions

Answer 5

observations
importance
validity

Question 6

observations : EVALUATION OF CAREGIVER-INFANT INTERACTIONS

Answer 6

Gratier
- when observing infant interactions it can be difficult to know what is merely a hand movement and what is a direct interaction

Question 7

importance : EVALUATION OF CAREGIVER-INFANT INTERACTIONS

Answer 7

Feldman
- points out that synchrony and reciprocity simply describes behaviour
- they do not tell us the developmental purpose of them

Question 8

validity : EVALUATION OF CAREGIVER-INFANT INTERACTIONS

Answer 8

• observations are well controlled and filmed from multiple angles
• enables inter-rater reliability as more than one observer can watch
• the babies do not know they’re being watched so cannot change their behaviour