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What is attachment?
- An affectionate tie that an individual forms between oneself and another specific one
- Binds the two together and endures time
- Takes longer to form than a bond
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Attachment behaviours
- Seeking proximity
- Distress during separation
- Joy on reunion
- General orientation
- Non verbal communication
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What is reciprocity?
- Responding to the action of another with a similar action
- Infants coordinate their behaviour with caregiver
- Turn taking and acts as a precursor to later communication
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What is interactional synchrony?
- When two people interact and tend to mirror what the other is doing
- Facial and body movements
- Emotions as well as behaviours
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Meltzoff and Moore's study into interactional synchrony (procedure)
- 3 adult models who displayed one of three facial expressions or hand movements
- Dummy placed in infants mouth during initial display to prevent any response
- Following display, dummy removed and infants response recorded on a video tape
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Meltzoff and Moore's study into interactional synchrony (findings)
- Following the display, infant imitated adults behaviour, suggesting innate and not learned
- Video tapes judged by individuals who had no knowledge of what the infant had previously seen and had to record responses with provided behavioural categories
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Piaget (evaluation)
- Piaget suggests true behaviour imitation only evident during end of infants first year (Moore's study on babies as young as two weeks old), suggesting behaviour was a learned response
- Operant conditioning, reaction was rewarding
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Murry and Trevarthen (evaluation)
- Observed behaviour of two year old infant
- Interacts with mother through live video monitor and then through a pre recorded video of mother
- Recording caused distress as prevented synchrony, live video caused no distress
- Behaviour innate as interact
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Summary evaluation
- Testing infant behaviour can be problematic due to infant response reliability
- Repeated studies found no imitation of adult behaviour and no distinction between live and video footage
- Lack of research support
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Attachment behaviours

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- Seeking proximity
- Distress during separation
- Joy on reunion
- General orientation
- Non verbal communication

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What is reciprocity?

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What is interactional synchrony?

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Meltzoff and Moore's study into interactional synchrony (procedure)

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