Caregiver-infant interaction Flashcards

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Attachment

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  1. a close two-way emotional bond between individuals
  2. each individual sees the other as essential for their own emotional security
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Why are attachments formed?

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  1. infants are physically helpless - born with primitive reflexes such as sucking or grasping to help them survive
  2. short term security
  3. seeking interactions is innate and infants use social releasers
  4. first attachment is used as a template for future relationships
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Caregiver-infant interactions

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  1. non-verbal
  2. infants cry has different meanings
  3. interaction is infant-led
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Macoby characteristics of attachment research (1980)

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  1. seeking proximity
  2. distress on separation
  3. joy on reunion - secure base behaviour
  4. orientation of behaviour
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Reciprocity

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  1. develops by about three months
  2. each person responds to the other and elicits a response from them
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International synchrony

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  1. where infant and mother carry out an action at the same time
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Meltzoff and Moore interactional synchrony research (1977)

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  1. videotaped 12-21 day old babies as an adult experimenter performed different facial expressions and gestures
  2. beginning of interactional synchrony in babies as young as two weeks old
  3. association found between actions that adult displayed and infants response
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Interactional synchrony evaluation - strengths

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  1. Research support - Meltzoff and Moore (1977)
  2. Many observations involving caregiver-interactions have shown the same patterns of interaction
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Interactional synchrony evaluation - weaknesses

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  1. unable to identify whether infants imitation are conscious or deliberate
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