Caregiver- infant interiactions Flashcards

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What is attachment?

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An emotional bond between two individuals (primary caregiver and child) in which each individual sees the other as essential for their own emotional security

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What is reciprocity?

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A two way mutual process between infant and caregiver, where each person elicits a response from the other
Also known as ‘turn taking’

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What did feldman and Eidelmann (2007) find ?

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Mothers pick up and respond to baby’s alertness 2/3 of the time

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What are alert phases?

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signals from babies which indicate that they are ready for a special interaction

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What did Findegood et al say on picking up baby’s alertness?

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Varies according to skill of mother and external factors such as stress

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How were babies traditionally seen, and how are they seen now?

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As Passive recipients, but babies and carers both can take on an active role (active involvement)

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What does Brazelton et al describe interaction as?

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A dance

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What is international synchrony?

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When caregiver and infant carry out the same action or behaviour simultaneously
They mirror eachother.

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What did Meltzoff and Moore observe?

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They observed interactional synchrony in babies as young as 2 weeks old

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What did Meltzoff and Moore find?

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Found a correlation between adult behaviour and infant responsiveness

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What did Isabella et al assess?

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assessed degree of synchrony between 30 mothers and their babies

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What did Isabella et al find?

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Found high levels of synchrony associated with better quality mother-baby attachment

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Why is it a limitation that we don’t know whether infants actions are deliberate?

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-hard to interpret baby
-e.g. what is happening, could just be small hand movements or changes in expression
-can’t know what is taking place for babies perspective
-We can’t be certain whether the interactions observed have special meaning

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what do these caregiver-infant interaction observations not tell us about?

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-Observations don’t tell us the purpose of synchrony and reciprocity,
-Feldman- ideas simply give names to patterns of observable behaviour
-Robus phenonemna in the sense, can be reliably observed but not useful in understanding child development as they don’t tell us purpose

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what is a criticism of the weakness that we don’t know the purpose of synchrony and reciprocity?

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evidence that synchrony and reciprocity are helpful in mother-infant interactions
Eg Isabella et al

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What is a strength of caregiver infant interactions?

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-Use well controlled procedures, as they are usually filmed in laboratory
-babies also can’t display demand characteristics
-Very fine details of behaviour can also be recorded and later analysed unlikely to miss key behaviours
-establish inter-rater reliability of observatiosn