caregiver-infant interactions

Question 1

define attachment

Answer 1

an emotional bond between two people in which each seeks closeness and feels more secure when in the presence of the attachment figure.

Question 2

what is reciprocity

Answer 2

a form of interaction between infant and caregiver involving mutual responsiveness, with both infant and mother responding to each other’s signals, and each elicits a response from the other.

Question 3

what is interactional synchrony

Answer 3

when two people interact and tend to mirror what the other is doing in terms of their facial and body movements in synchrony (emotions and behaviors).

Question 4

one limitation of caregiver-infant interactions

Answer 4

p- what is being observed is merely hand movements or changes in expression.
E- It is extremely difficult to be certain, based on these observations, what is taking place from the infant’s perspective.
T- This means that we cannot know for certain that behaviors seen in mother-infant interactions have a special meaning.

Question 5

one strength of caregiver-infant interactions

Answer 5

P- Observations of mother-infant interactions are generally well-controlled procedures, with both mother and infant being filmed, often from multiple angles.
E- This ensures that very fine details of behavior can be recorded and later analyzed. babies don’t know or care that they are being observed, so their behavior does not change in response to controlled observation which is generally a problem for observational research.
T- This is a strength of this line of research because it means the research has good validity.