Caregiver-Infant Interactions

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  • Caregiver-infant Interactions
    • Reciprocity
      • The two-way process of interaction: behaviour from one party elicits a response from the other.
    • A two-way emotional bond between two individuals in which each individual sees the others as essential for their own emotional security.
    • Interactional Synchrony
      • People are synchronised when they carry out the same action simultaneous-ly. This can involve imitation or mimicking.
    • Tronick & Brazleton (1978)
      • After a point of interaction, a mother faces her infant and holds a 'still face' for 3 minutes.
        • Usually, the infant will attempt to initiate the usual reciprocal pattern of interaction using various facial expressions and gestures.
          • The infant becomes agitated by failed attempts to evoke a reaction in the mother, and eventually withdraws its face and body from its mother.
      • Shows that babies have an active role in initiating interaction and that when the mother does not respond, this has an effect on the infant's subsequent behaviour.

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