Caregiver-Infant Interaction
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- Created on: 25-03-17 12:28
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- Caregiver-infant interaction
- Reciprocity: Where the caregiver and infant respond to each others signals and evoke a response from each other. 'Turn taking' : e.g. taking it in turns to smile.
- International synchrony: Mirroring each others facial and body movements; imitating emotions as well as behaviours. e.g. opening their mouths at the same time.
- Attachment: A two way emotional bond between 2 people, usually the mother and the infant, that endures over time and is long lasting.
- Melzoff and Moore: conducted the first systematic study of interactional synchrony.
- An adult model displayed one of 3 facial expressions or one of 3 hand movements to infants aged 12-21 days old. A dummy was placed in the infants mouth during initial display to prevent response. The reaction was filmed on video and then watched by independent observers and the responses from the infants identified from behavioural categories.
- There was an association between the infant behaviour and that of the adult model, seen in infants less than 2-3 weeks old.
- Conclusion: Infants appear to imitate adults expressions and movements.
- There was an association between the infant behaviour and that of the adult model, seen in infants less than 2-3 weeks old.
- A strength of this study is it was a controlled observation; this stops researcher bias as the observer doesn't know what the infant is seeing and the behaviour was filmed, so nothing was missed; ensures it's international synchrony being measured not general behaviours; increases validity.
- Although the research given is a controlled method for studying IS and Reciprocity, it doesn't tell us why this interaction is important; further research is needed in order to understand the importance of interaction.
- During the observartion, infants were seen to imitate facial and hand movements which was an indication if caregiver-infant interaction, however we cannot be sure this communication was intentional.
- But Meltzoff and Moore tried to overcome this by independent observers.
- An adult model displayed one of 3 facial expressions or one of 3 hand movements to infants aged 12-21 days old. A dummy was placed in the infants mouth during initial display to prevent response. The reaction was filmed on video and then watched by independent observers and the responses from the infants identified from behavioural categories.
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