Caregiver-infant interactions
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- Created on: 21-03-23 19:40
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- Caregiver-infant interactions
- Reciprocity
- When both parent and child both respond and elicit a response from the other
- Alert phases
- When a baby signals that they want interaction
- From three months these become more frequent
- Feldman
- Mothers typically pick up on these signals 2/3 of the time
- Feldman and Eidelman
- Active involvement
- Both caregiver and baby initiate interactions, and appear to take turns doing so
- Brazelton et al
- Both caregiver and baby initiate interactions, and appear to take turns doing so
- Interactional synchrony
- When the emotions and actions of caregiver and baby mirror each other
- Begins as young as two weeks old
- Meltzoff and Moore
- High levels of synchrony are associated with better quality of attachment
- Isabella et al
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Lab observations
- High control
- High inter-rater reliability
- Babies do not know they are being observed
- Lab observations
- Weaknesses
- Difficult to interpret a baby's behaviour
- Observing a baby's behaviour doesn't tell us how it affects their development
- Strengths
- Reciprocity
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