How two people interact. A mother and an infant respond to each others signals illiciting a response from the other.
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What is interactional synchrony?
A mother and an infant will reflect their actions and emotions of the other in a synchronised way.
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What did Schaffer and Emerson (1964) find about parent-infant attachments?
The majority of babies did become attached to their mothers first and within a few weeks they formed secondary attachments to other family members.
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What did Grossman (2002) find when investigating the role of the father?
The quality of an infants attachment to their mother reflected in the quality of the childs future relationships. The quality of fathers play was seen to be more significant than their attachment.
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What did Tiffany Field (1978) find out about the role of the father?
When fathers do take on the role of being the childs main caregiver, they adopt behaviours typically seen of mothers. This suggests that it is not who forms an attachment but the level of responsiveness of the parent.
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What are the stages of attachment that Schaffer and Emerson found?
Asocial Stage
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What is interactional synchrony?
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A mother and an infant will reflect their actions and emotions of the other in a synchronised way.
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What did Schaffer and Emerson (1964) find about parent-infant attachments?
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What did Grossman (2002) find when investigating the role of the father?
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What did Tiffany Field (1978) find out about the role of the father?
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