Caregiver-infant interactions

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  • Created on: 28-09-22 15:46
What is attachment?
responsiveness of the caregiver to the babies' signals that has a profound effect. These are important to the child's social development
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What is reciprocity?
- a description of how two people interact
- caregiver and infant interaction are reciprocal because both baby and caregiver respond to each other's signals and each cause a reaction from each other.
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what is an alert phase?
- where babies signal, maybe through eye contact, that they are ready for a spell of interaction
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Who is most likely to pick up on the baby's alert phase
mothers pick up on their baby's alert phase 2/3 of the time
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What did Feldman and Eidelman find?
Whether the mother pics up on the alert phases depends on the skill of the mother and external factors such as stress
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At what age do the interactions become more frequent?
3 months old
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What is active involvement?
Means when both baby and caregiver take on an active role and both make interactions. - kind of like doing a dance with someone
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What is interactional synchrony?
when caregiver and baby both reflect the actions and emotions of the other and do it in a synchronised way
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What psychologists looked into when interactional Sychrony begins?
Andrew Meltzoff and Keith Moore
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What did Andrew Meltzoff and Keith Moore find?
Babys' expressions and gestures where more likely to mirror those of the adults than predicted - there was a significant association
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Is interactional synchrony important?
It's important for the development of a caregiver-infant attachment
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What did Russel Isabells et al find?
When mothers and babies where tested they found that high levels of synchrony were associated with better quality mother-baby attachments.
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What are some advantages of studying caregiver-infant interactions?
- Done in a Labatory so other things that could distract the baby are controlled so researchers won't miss key behaviours, also babies don't know they are being filmed so there's good reliability and validity.
- has practical implications for parenting sk
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What are some disadvantages of studying caregiver-infant interactions?
- It's hard to interpret a baby's behaviour as the movement being recorded are just small body movements and expressions - and these movements might not be because of the caregiver.
- it tells us what the behaviours the child is doing are but not what th
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