caregiver-infant interactions

Question 1

define reciprocity

Answer 1

taking in turns to respond as behaviour is matched during interaction

Question 2

evaluate reciprocity

Answer 2

A: Meltzoff and Moore: demonstrated babies as young as 12-27 days would attempt to imitate facial and physical gestures

Question 3

define interactional synchrony

Answer 3

how parent’s speech and infants behaviour is mirrored so they re indirectly responded to another through two-way process

Question 4

evaluate interactional synchrony

Answer 4

A: Brazelton: identifies trends in mother-baby interactional synchrony
-> m: examining babies play behaviour at 12 months through 3 stages (attention and buildup; turning away; recovery)
-> c: 3 phases of play demonstrated signs of interactional synchrony
A: Isabella and Belsky: hypothesised caregiver-baby pairs that develop secure attachments display more interactional synchrony than insecure- different interactional behaviours predicted attachment quality so it adds to theory being complex
A: still face experiment: mother doesn’t respond to baby- concludes it being two-way process