Caregiver infant attachment

Question 1

What is reciprocity

Answer 1

Responding to the action of another with a similar action, where the actions of one partner elicit a response from the other partner.

Question 2

Interactional synchrony

Answer 2

when two people interact they tend to mirror what the other is doing in terms of their facial expressions and their body movements

Question 3

Case study: Meltzoff

Answer 3

babies watched three different faces and a hand gesture. infants as young as 2-3 weeks imitated. inter-rater reliability

Question 4

A03:

Problems with testing infant behaviour

Answer 4

can be unreliable because they frequently use different expressions so can be difficult to determine whether its intentional.

Question 5

A03: Individual differences

Isabella and heimann

Answer 5

Isabella: strongly attached infant - greater interactional synchrony
Heimann: Infants who showed more imitation had a better relationship at 3 months