Caregiver-Infant Interactions

Question 1

What does Attachment mean?

Answer 1

• it is an emotional tie or bond between two people.
• The relationship is two way

Question 2

What is Caregiver-Infant Interaction?

Answer 2

• The mutual exchanges between caregivers and infants that encourages and maintain attachment bonds.

Question 3

What is Reciprocity?

Answer 3

• A description of how two people interact.
• CII is reciprocal which means that both infant and caregiver respond to each other’s signals and receives a response from the other.

Question 4

What is Interactional Synchrony?

Answer 4

• Caregiver and Infant reflect both the actions and emotions of the other and do this in a synchronised way.

Question 5

What are the three ways attachment behaviour is shown?

Answer 5

• Proximity Seeking
• Seperation Distress
• Secure-based Behaviour

Question 6

Give an example of Reciprocity.

Answer 6

• The mum laughs and the baby laugh as a response to the mum laughing (like a dance).

Question 7

Give an example of Interactional Synchrony.

Answer 7

• Mum and baby laugh at the same time.

Question 8

What did researchers do to investigate Reciprocity between infants and caregivers and what dod they find?
(Don’t need to know names)

Answer 8

• Infants were filmed whilst an audio clip of adult voices were played.
• A frame bu frame analysis was carried out of the infants movements responding to the audio clips.
• Found that infants coordinated their actions in time to the rhythm of adults speaking. This formed a ‘turn-taking conversation.

Question 9

What did researchers do to investigate Interactional Synchrony and what did they find?
(Don’t need to know names)

Answer 9

• 30 Mothers and infants were observed together
• They were assessed on the degree of synchrony and the quality of mother-infant attachment.
• High levels of synchrony were associated with better quality mother-infant attachment.