Caregiver-Infant Interactions AO1
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- Caregiver-Infant Interactions AO1
- Alert phases
- From birth, babies and caregivers spend lots of time in intense and pleasurable interaction
- Babies have 'alert phases' and signal they are ready for interaction
- Caregivers respond to these around two-thirds of the time
- Interactional synchrony
- 'The coordination of micro-level behaviour'- Feldman, 2007
- It takes place when caregiver and infant act in a way that their actions and emotions mirror the other
- Meltzof and Moore (1977)
- Observed the beginning of interactional synchrony in infants at 2 weeks old
- Procedure
- An adult displayed one of three facial expressions or one of three distinctive gestures
- The infant's response was filmed
- An association was found between the expression/gesture and the action of the child
- Isabella et al. (1989)
- Procedure
- Observed 20 mothers and infants together
- Assessed the degree of synchrony and quality of mother-infant attachment
- Synchrony is important for development of attachment
- High levels of synchrony were associated with better quality mother-infant attachment
- Procedure
- Reciprocity
- Reciprocal interaction is seen to be increasingly frequent from around 3 months
- Each person responds to the other and elicits a response from them
- It involves close attention to each other's verbal signals and facial expressions
- Brazleton et al. (1975)
- Described the interaction like a dance
- Like a couple's dance where each partner responds to each other's moves
- Activity of baby
- Traditional views of childhood have seen the baby in a passive role
- However, it seems the baby takes an active role
- Both caregiver and child can initiate interactions
- They appear to take turns in doing so
- Alert phases
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