caregiver interactions Flashcards
caregiver - 6 ao1
babies have frequent and important interactions with their caregiver
reciprocity is taking turns in a ‘conversation’, mothers will respond when the baby is alert and from 3 months it becomes more intense and reciprocal
interactional synchrony is when the behaviour becomes coordinated - same actions simultaneously
Meltzoff and Moore - 3-day old babies imitate mothers - interactional synchrony
Isabella et al - quality of attachment related to synchrony
Tronick - still faced experiment - babies became increasingly distressed
Caregiver - generalisability
tronick only carried out the still face experiment on mothers
Caregiver - reliability - replicability
meltzoff and moore
results of the test are hard to replicate – infants mouths in fairly constant motion during test eg yawning – hard to distinguish between the normal activity of the infant and the specific imitated behaviour
caregiver - application
doesn’t contain any information about developmental importance – one time study – reciprocity and interactional synchrony given names to patterns of behaviour – cannot be particularly useful in trying to understand childhood development as we cannot gage the full understanding on the purpose of these behaviours – unable to be certain from observational research that reciprocity and synchrony are influential and important for a child’s development
caregiver - validity
filming the interactions – high-interrater reliability – Metlzoff and moore filmed the infants and asked an observer to judge the behaviour – combats issues with results being hard to replicate due to infant behaviour
caregiver - ethics
socially sensitive which can have implications for caregivers – mothers should not return to work soon after having a baby as this would reduce opportunities for these behaviours to occur and could negatively affect the development of their childhood
