Caregiver-infant interactions
- Created by: Keeleymegan_
- Created on: 01-05-18 13:45
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- Caregiver-infant interactions
- D = attachment is an emotional bond between two people whuch endures over time
- Reciprocity
- Rhythm of taking it in turns - conversation
- Taking it in turns to respond appropriately = foundation for attachment later
- Interactional synchrony
- Imitates another
- Meltzoff and Moore study
- 1st study of IS and found infants as young as 2 to 3 weeks old imitated facial and hand gestures
- Dummy = no movement and adult pulling faces and making gestures
- F= association between infant behaviour and adult behaviour
- Parent-infant attachment (Schaffer & Emerson)
- Majority of babies attached to mothers first
- Within a few weeks formed secondary attachments
- 75% attached to farther by 18 mo
- The role of the farther (Grossman)
- Longitudinal study - quality of attachment with mother but no farther - attach in adolescence
- Farther attachment was less important
- Less to do with nuturing and more to do with play
- Longitudinal study - quality of attachment with mother but no farther - attach in adolescence
- Farther as PC
- Adopt mother behaviours
- Important in building attachment
- Level of responsiveness not gender
- Adopt mother behaviours
- Females naturally PC
- Hormones (osterogen) creat higher levels of nurturing - biologically pre-disposed
- MM study problems
- Infants mouths are constantly moving
- Difficult to distiguish between general activity and imitation
- Infants mouths are constantly moving
- Failed to replicate
- Other studies failed to replicate findings
- Low validity
- Other studies failed to replicate findings
- Individual diferences
- Corrolation between IS and attachment
- Greater IS = stronger attachment
- Some require little to no IS and have good attachment
- Corrolation between IS and attachment
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