Care-giver interactions
- Created by: princess adewale
- Created on: 10-01-17 14:52
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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
- Infant and career form the abilty to communicate without using language
- 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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