Caregiver-Infant Interactions
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- Created on: 24-08-17 14:17
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- Caregiver-Infant Interactions
- Interactional synchrony
- When two people interact they tend to mirror what each other are doing
- This can be facial expressions and movements
- This includes imitating emotions as well
- This is described as a synchrony - when two or more things move in the same pattern
- Reciprocity
- Responding to the action of another with a similar action
- Where the action of one partner elicits a response from the other partner
- Meltzoff and Moore (1977 +1983)
- An experimenter sat in front of infants who were between 12 and 21-days-old.
- He stuck his tongue out, opened his mouth, pursed his lips and moved his fingers
- To see how the children reacted and they copied his movements
- Interactional synchrony
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