Caregiver - infant interactions + E

Question 1

What is attachment?

Answer 1

A deep and enduring bond that connects one person to another across time and space.

Question 2

Attachment is a close ______ ____ bond between two people. Each individual sees the other as an essential for their own ___________ _________.

Answer 2

• Two way

- Emotional security

Question 3

What 3 behaviours do we recognise attachment in?

Answer 3

• Proximity seeking
• Separation anxiety
• Secure base behaviours

Question 4

What are the two types of interaction?

Answer 4

Reciprocity & Interactional synchrony

Question 5

What is reciprocity?

Answer 5

• Description of how 2 people interact
• Mother-infant interaction is reciprocal when both the mother and the infant respond to each other’s signals. (like a conversation)

Question 6

Brazelton (1975) describes reciprocity as a what?

Answer 6

Dance

Question 7

Feldman & Eidelman (2007) say what about reciprocity?

Answer 7

Infants have alert periods and mothers pick up o it 2/3 of the time.

Question 8

What is interactional synchrony?

Answer 8

When the mother and the infant reflect the actions and the emotions of the other in a coordinated way. (Mirroring)

• Meltzoft & Moore (1977) observed an association between the expression of the adult and the child

Question 9

High levels of interactional synchrony were assosiated with better quality _________.

Answer 9

attachment

Question 10

Identify a strength. (procedures)

Answer 10

P: Controlled procedures
E: observations were filmed and in a lab environment plus the babies are unaware that they are being filmed
E: increases the inter-rater reliability = it’s more objective ad the observers would miss fewer details.

Good reliability and validity

Question 11

Explain why a limitation would be that it is hard to know what is going on?

Answer 11

E: Difficult to interpret as young babes lack coordination and we could give meaning to an action that could have been accidental.
E: We cannot be certain that their behaviour has meaning

Question 12

Explain why a limitation would be that they don’t tell us the purpose of synchrony and reciprocity?

Answer 12

E: Feldman (2012) pointed out that the theory shows us the patterns but doesn’t tell if it’s essential for a child development

Question 13

Explain why a limitation would be that it is socially sensitive?

Answer 13

E: This could be used to argue that mothers should not work after having a child.
E: Condemns and limits mothers. Low-income mothers need to work and can affect legislation unfairly meaning the research could have negative impacts.