Caregiver Infant Interactions

Question 1

What is attachment?

Answer 1

Emotional relationship between infant and their caregiver

Question 2

What is sensitive responsiveness?

Answer 2

The caregiver re response appropriately to signals from the infant

Question 3

What is imitation?

Answer 3

The infant copies, the caregivers actions and behaviour

Question 4

Which study looked at imitation

Answer 4

Meltzoff and Moore 1977

Question 5

What is interactional synchrony?

Answer 5

Infants react in time with the caregiver speech

Question 6

Who did an experiment on interactional synchrony?

Answer 6

Condon and Sander 1974

Question 7

What is reciprocity?

Answer 7

Interaction flowing back-and-forth between the caregiver and infant

Question 8

Who described the four stages of attachment?

Answer 8

Schaffer and Emerson 1964

Question 9

What are the four stages of attachment?

Answer 9

1. Pre-attachment phase
2. Indiscriminate phase
3. Discriminate phase.
4. Multiple attachment phase.

Question 10

Is there lots of support for Schaffer and Emerson?

Answer 10

Yes

Question 11

What was a negative about Schaffer and Emerson?

Answer 11

It was a limited study

Question 12

Who looked at attachment in Zaire?

Answer 12

Tronick et al 1992