Caregiver Interactions
- Created by: MeganE8
- Created on: 04-03-20 09:45
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- Caregiver Interactions
- Reciprocity
- Infants coordinate their actions with caregivers - like a conversation
- From birth they move in rhythm with adults
- This sensitivity to cues from the baby is key fort later attachment
- Interactional Synchrony
- When baby mirrors the actions of the other person
- Body movements and facial expressions
- These actions occur at the same time
- Meltzoff & Moore (1997)
- Adult displayed facial expressions
- Baby had dummy in their mouth to prevent random movemnts
- There was an association between the infant behaviour and that of the adults.
- Infants imitated specific facial and hand gestures
- Evaluation
- Weaknesses
- Unreliable, babies are usually in constant motion
- There has been a failure to replicate research findings
- Individual differences, strongly matched infants and caregivers showed greater interactional synchrony
- Strengths
- Application to later adult relationships
- Important process in attachment
- Suggests babies don't just imitate anything the see - usually animate objects
- Weaknesses
- Reciprocity
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