Caregiver-infant interactions
AS level/A2-Alevel
CG- Caregiver
I- Infants
- Created by: usharif
- Created on: 24-03-18 13:22
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- Caregiver-infant interactions
- Interactional synchrony
- When 2 people interact they tend to mirror what the other is doing
- Facial + body movements
- Imitating emotions
- Synchrony
- Two (or more) things move in the same pattern
- Key Study:
- Meltzoff + Moore
- 3 different faces + hand gestures ( 4 different stimuli)
- Observations were recorded (video-taped)
- Infants 2-3 weeks old
- An association was found between the action (adult model) and expression the child
- Meltzoff + Moore
- When 2 people interact they tend to mirror what the other is doing
- Reciprocity
- Responding to the action of another with a similar action
- Where the actions of one partner evokes a response from the other partner
- The actions is not similar
- Key study:
- Brazelton (1979)
- Basic rhythm = important for later communications
- Regularity of an infants signals = caregiver to see the infant's behaviour & respond appropriately
- Sensitivity to infant behaviour lays the foundation for later attachment between CG and I
- Brazelton (1979)
- Responding to the action of another with a similar action
- Interactional synchrony
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