Care-giver interactions

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  • Care-giver interactions
    • Care-giver interactions is the emotional bond between an infant and  a care-giver
    • There are two behaviours in care-giver interactions reciprocity and internal synchrony
    • Reciprocity
      • The infant and their care-giver are able to produce responses in each other
      • Infant have the ability to copy their carers facial expressions, so if their carers smiles at the infant they will smile back
    • International synchrony
      • Infant and career form the abilty to communicate without using language
        • The is done by turn taking-when one has finished interacting they pause and the other takes over
    • Bodily contact
      • Physical contact such as skin to skin (especially after the period of birth). This helps form and strengthener bond between the infant and the caregiver
    • Mimicking
      • Infants have the ability to copy facial expression and simple hand gestures. This is consistent with biological instincts to help form attachments

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