a reciprocal bond between two individuals
e.g. infant and caregiver
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what is reciprocity?
infant-caregiver interaction involving mutual responsiveness, with both infant and mother responding to each other’s signals and each elicits a response from the other
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what is an example of reciprocity?
smiling
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why is reciprocity important?
- It becomes the basis for development of basic trust or mistrust
- shapes how the child will relate to the world
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define interactional synchrony
when two people interact and tend to mirror what the other is doing in terms of their facial and body movements
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how do infants 'use' interactional synchrony?
infants coordinate their actions with caregivers in a kind of conversation
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what did Russel Isabella et al show?
infants who demonstrate a lot of synchrony from have been found to have a better mother-infant attachment
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what is reciprocity?
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infant-caregiver interaction involving mutual responsiveness, with both infant and mother responding to each other’s signals and each elicits a response from the other
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