Caregiver-Infant interactions.

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What is attachment?
a strong, enduring, emotional and reciprocal bond between two people.
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What is attachment categorised by?
reciprocal affection, frequent interaction, a desire for proximity and selectivity.
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Why do we for attachment?
Attachments are not present at birth, they are nurtured.
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How do infants and caregivers form bonds?
Bodily contact, mimicking, caregiverese, international synchrony and reciprocity.
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What does bodily contact involve?
infants and caregivers to help form the attachment bond by physical interaction.
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Who did research into bodily contact?
Klaus and Kennel (1976)
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What did they do?
found that mums who had extended contact time with babies after birth, cuddled them more.
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What are the practical applications of this?
Kangaroo care
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What is mimicking?
an innate ability for infants to imitate adult facial expressions.
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What did Melzoff and Moore find?
from 2-3 weeks old babies can mimic facial expressions, suggesting it is innate.
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What is caregiverese?
a modified form of language that is high pitched and song like, as well as slow and repetitive.
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Who found caregiverse to be cultural so therefore innate?
Papousek et al (1991)
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What is reciprocity?
the interaction of similar behaviour patterns between carer and infant.
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Who carried out the still face experiment?
Tronick et al
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What is international synchrony?
when two people interact in a mirror pattern in terms of facial and body movements.
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Who researched this?
Isabella and Heimann
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What did Heimann find?
infants who demonstrated lots of imitation had better quality of relationship at 3 months.
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Which characteristics of attachment did Maccoby identify?
seeking proximity, distress on seperation, joy on reunion and orientation of behaviour.
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What are the problems of testing infant behaviour?
only based on observations meaning we cannot really know if interactions have a special meaning
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What are the positives of testing infant behaviour?
well controlled procedure which ensures details can be analysed and the research has good validity as babies unaware of observation.
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What is an advantage of caregiver-infant interaction?
led to kangaroo care
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What are the disadvantages to caregiver-infant interactions?
caregiverese used internationally so may not only help attachment, IS not used in all cultures, so may not be necessary.
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