First Relationship

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  • Created on: 05-10-12 18:39
Introduce First Relationships: 2 points & 2 theorists
1. Babies depend on others for survival - not only for physical needs, but relationship needs too. RUTTER notes that orphanage raised children where only physical care was given & children still failed to thrive. 2. Babies desire 'relatedness' HOBSON
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Meshing: What is it? Name theorist
Meshing is how an infant's and adult's behaviour 'fits in' with each other. Cans ee meshing in context of conversation eg turn-taking, mutual action, synchronizing. 'Co-regulation' ~ TREVARTHEN
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Meshing: Research example
Research: turn-taking & face-to-face interactions by KAYE & FOGEL. Examined the development of interactions between 52 mothers and infants (at ages 6, 13, 26 weeks). Babies greetings, 2 categories 'reactive' and 'proactive'.
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Imitation: Explain
Imitation used as building blocks for pseudo-dialogues reather than as an indication of cognition.
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Imitation; Research example
Research: longitudinal study of 'imitative sequences' by PAWLBY. Infants between 4 & 10 months found mothers imitate babies more than visa versa.
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Imitation: Research example findings
4-6months: facial units of imitation dominant focus; 6+ months: hand movements/sounds accompany facial expressions. 8+ months: imitation with toys eg rattle dominates.
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What is intersubjectivity? Theorist?
A sharing of experience between 2 people which is more than a simple interaction. TREVARTHEN. Primary: interactions 'of the moment' & primarily 'interpersonal' events eg imitation. Secondary: extends to include joint action/attention eg objects/toys
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Scaffolding: Explain...
Mother creates simplified sequences of action with objects. Repeated many time, baby learns them as potent intersubjective topics & through their involvement becomes possible for them to achieve success themselves.
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Scaffolding:Example & theorist
BRUNER: joint action provides essential building block for development of language. Eg book reading action format: "Look", "What's that?", "It's an X", "That's right".
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Scaffolding: Expand
Mother only moves to the next step when the child has responded appropriately, If the child initiates (point/vocalise) then mother will begin the cycle at the appropriate point
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Scaffolding; Wood et al theory
(1) Modelling: mother shows what can be done (2) Cueing: Indicates to infant what is appropriate (3) Raising the ante: elaboration to achieve more complex goals.
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Containing
Average baby spends 1.5-3hrs per day in 'state 5': crying/fretting therefore a major task for mothers is to alleviate their baby's distress as much as it is to engage in pseudo-dialogues etc.
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Importance of 'Containing'
The successful handling of such situations can provide the infant with the experience of strong, overpowering emotions being contained & not catostrophic.
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Transacting:
Model of developmental process - interactive element as each side influences the other. the baby plays a role in constructing their own social environment; something built by mother & baby.
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Transacting (cont):
A simple cause-&-effect model cannot fully describe complex transactional links between behaviour: each person plays a part in determining how the other behaves & hence what happens between them.
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