Attachment
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- Created on: 25-02-20 15:39
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- Attachment
- definition
- an emotional bond between 2 people
- each feels secure when with eachother
- the quality of the attachment impacts social, cognitive and emotional development
- Reciprocity
- a description of how two people interact
- Mother-infant interaction is reciprocal in that:
- Interactional Synchrony
- refers to how a caregiver (mother) and infant reflect actions and emotions of the other
- this happens in a synchronised way
- Research into IS
- Meltzoff & Moore (1977)
- observed the beginnings of IS in babies as young as 12-27 days
- adult pulled a face and the baby copied
- the babies' responses were filmed and independent observers identified the response
- refers to how a caregiver (mother) and infant reflect actions and emotions of the other
- Research into IS
- Meltzoff & Moore (1977)
- observed the beginnings of IS in babies as young as 12-27 days
- adult pulled a face and the baby copied
- the babies' responses were filmed and independent observers identified the response
- Importance of IS
- Isabella et al (1989)
- IS leads to attachment (and so on)
- Isabella et al (1989)
- definition
- -each elicits a response in the other
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