An emotional bond between 2 people. It is a 2 way process which endures over time. It leads to behaviours such as clinging, proximmity seeking and serves the function of protecting the infant.
From an early age babies have meaningful social interactions with their carers. It is believed these interactions have important funtions for the child's social development, in particular for caregiver infant attachment.
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What is reciprocity?
The matching of actions in 2 people, where the actions of one partner elicits a response from the other
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What is an example of research on reciprocity?
Tronick et al asked mothers enjoying dialogue with baby to stop moving and smiling and child would try tempt mother interaction by smile. Distressed when no usal respnse. Shows babies expect +anticpate concordant response to smiles.
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What is interactional synchrony?
Coordinated rhythmic exchanges between carer and infant. Braodly used today to refer to finely tuned coordination of behaviour between mother and infant during speaking+listening. Develop shared sense of timing, develops into flow of mutual behaviour
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What is an example of research on IS?
Brazelton observed 12 motherbaby pairs at regular intervals over 12 1st 5 months of life. Videod playsessions then microanalysed them. Babies showed cylces of attention+nonattention. 3 distinct phases:¬attention n buildup¬turning away¬recovery.
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Evaluate caregiverinfant interactions...
¬Limitation:Difficult to know what's happening infants,, merely handmovernts, facial expression,, what's happening from infants perspective,, concsious or deliberate? Don't know id they have special meaning.
From an early age babies have meaningful social interactions with their carers. It is believed these interactions have important funtions for the child's social development, in particular for caregiver infant attachment.
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