caregiver interations attachment Flashcards
attachment
Attachment can be defined as an emotional bond between two people in which each seeks closeness and feels more secure when in the presence of the attachment figure.
briefly evaluate research into caregiver infant interaction
controlled observations ,this allows us to capture a lot of detail and they are well controlled and often filmed from multiple angles.babies don’t know or care that they are being filmed
weakness
hard to know what is happening when observing an infant ,actions such as smiling and yawning occur frequently in a children so we don’t know what the purpose of reciprocity and ineractional synchrony
interactional synchrony
nteractional synchrony is when two people interact and tend to mirror what the other is doing in terms of their facial and body movements (emotions and behaviors).
reciprocity
Reciprocity is a form of interaction between infant and caregiver involving mutual responsiveness, with both infant and mother responding to each other’s signals and each elicits a response from the other.
3 stages of schaffer
asocial
indisriminate
multiple