Caregiver-Infant Interactions
- Created by: EllaIsUnusual
- Created on: 25-04-21 16:37
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- Caregiver-Infant Interactions
- Reciprocity
- Baby and Caregiver take turns - respond to and elicit responses from each other. Like a dance.
- Babies have alert phases in which they seek interactions
- Babies take an active role. They are not passive recipients of care.
- International Synchrony
- Babies and caregivers mirror each others' expressions and gestures.
- The beginnings of synchrony van be seen in babies as young as two weeks (Metzloff and Moore).
- Good levels of synchrony are associated with good quality attachments (Isabella et al).
- Strengths
- Filmed observations of interactions analysed later, can establish inter-rater reliability and babies not aware of being observed. Increases validity.
- Weaknesses
- Difficulty observing babies - hard to know what their expressions/gestures mean e.g. don't know if hand twitch actually means something.
- Developmental importance - the behavior can be reliably observed but this doesn't reveal their importance.
- Reciprocity
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