Attachment Flashcards
Reciprocity
A description of how two people interact . Caregiver-infant interaction is reciprocal in that both caregiver +baby respond to each others signals + elicts a response from the other .
International Synchrony
What is an attachment ?
An attachent cna be defined as a close two way emotional bond between two individuals in which each individual sees the other as essential for their own emotional security .
Attachment in humans
attachment in humans takes a few months to devleop .
-We cn recognise an attachment when people display the following behaviours .
PROXIMITY - people try to stay physically close to their attachment figure .
-SEPRATION DISTESS - people sihow sings of anixety when an attachment figure leaves their presence .
-SECURE BASE BEHAVIOUR - even when we are independent of oru attachment figures ,w e end to make regular contact witht he . Babies dispal secure-bse behviour when they regularly return tot heir attachment figure while playing .
reciprocity
-from birth , babies and their mothers (or other caregivers ) spend a lot of time in ntense nd highly plesurbale interaction .
-An interaction is said to show reciproicty , when a person responds o the other and ELICITS a response fromt hem .
–For exmpla e, a caregiver might respod to his baby’s smile by saying something and then this in turn elicits a response from his aby .
-This kind reciprocal ineracion is also soemtimes called ‘turn taking @
-It is an essenital part of an conversation otherwsioe , people talk over eachother .
Alert phase
Babies have periodic a lot of faces in which they signal (example, make eye contact) that they are ready for a sped up interaction.
Research shows that mothers typically pick up on and respond to their babies and let us around 2/3 of the time. (Third and Addleman, 2007), although this varies, according to the skill of the mother external factors, such as stress.
When do babies start to show more increasingly frequent interactions?
From around three months, this interaction to become increased frequent and involve with both mother and Baby paying attention to each other, verbal signals and face expressions (failed man, 2007)
What is active involvement?
Traditional views of childhood have portrayed babies in a passive role, receiving care for an adult.
However, it seems that babies as well as caregivers actually take quite an active role. Both caregiver and Baby can initiate interactions and they appear to take turns and doing so.
T.Barry1975), describe the interaction as a “dance “because it is just like a couples dance for each partner response to the other person moves.
International synchrony
Like synchronise swimming to for us, said she synchronise when the car the same act simultaneously.
International synchrony can be defined as a temporal coordinated of my level social behaviour (Feldman, 2007).
It takes place when caregiver and Baby interact in such a way that the actions and emotions mirror the other.
International synchrony – Synchrony begins when
Andrew melts off and Keith Moore, 1977, observes the beginning of intraretinal synchrony and babies as young as two weeks old.
I don’t displayed one of the three facial expressions or one of the three distinctive gestures.
The babies response was filmed and labelled by independent service.
Babies expression and gestures were more likely to more those adults more than chance to predict That was a significant association.
International synchrony – important for attachment
It is believed that international synchrony is important for the development of caregiver – infant attachment.
Russell, Isabella ETA 1989, observed 30 mods and babies together and assessed the degree of synchrony.
The research has also assessed the quality of mother – Baby attachment.
They found that high levels of synchrony were associated with better quality – Baby attached (.G.emotional intensity of the relationship)
Evaluation – filmed observations
One strength of the research on this topic is that the caregiver interactions are usually filmed in the laboratory.
This means that other activity, that might distract the Baby, can be controlled.
Also using films means that observations can be recorded and analyse later.
Therefore is unlikely that resources will missing this.
Furthermore, having filmed interruptions means that more than one observer can record data and establish the interrater reliability of observations.
Finally, babies don’t know that they are being observed, so their behaviour does not change in response to observation. This is generally the main problem for over observations.
Therefore the day to collect insults research could have good reliability and validity.
Evaluation, limitation, difficulty, observing babies
One limitation of research into caregiver infant interaction is that his hard interpret a babies behaviour
Young babies like coordination and much of their bodies are almost in mobile. The movements being observed are just small hand movements or subtle changes and expression.
It is difficult to be sure, for example, whether a baby is smiling, or passing wind. It is also difficult to determine what is taking place from the babies perspective.
For example, we cannot know whether the movements such as a hand to it is a random or triggered by something the caregiver has done.
. This means we cannot be certain that the behaviour and caregiver her infant interactions. Have a special meeting.
Evaluation – developmental importance
A father limitation is that simply observing a behaviour does not tell us. It’s developmental importance.
Ruth, Feldman (2012), points out the ideas like synchrony (and by implication reciprocity), simply give names to patterns of observable Caregiver and baby behaviour.
These are robots phenomena in the sense that they can be reliably observed, but they still may not be a particularly useful and understanding child development as it does not tell us the purpose of these behaviours.
This means that we cannot be certain from observational research and loan that reciprocity and synchrony are important for child development.
Evaluation – developmental importance – counterpoint
There is evidence from other lines of research to suggest that early interactions are important. For example, Isabella 1989, found out the achievement of interactional synchrony predicted the development of a good quality attachment.
This means that, on balance, caregiver infant interaction is probably important in development.
Evaluation extra – practical value versus ethics
Research into early caregiver in infant interaction has practical applications in paging school training. For example, Rebecca Crotwell found out a 10 minute parent child interaction therapy improved interaction, synchrony in 20 low income, mothers and their preschool children.
On the other hand research into caregiver infant interaction is socially sensitive because it can be used to argue that when mother returns to work soon after having a baby this is damaging their babies development.
Consider: does practical value outweigh the social sensitive research?how valuable is this research?
Stages of attachment
Many developmental theories are by sequence of qualitatively different behaviours linked to a specific ages.
In the case of stages of attachment qualitative activity different infant (Baby) behaviours are linked to specific ages command all babies going to be them in the same order.
Multiple attachments
Attachments are two or more people. Most babies appear to develop multiple attachments once I have formed one strong attachment to one of the car.
Rudolph, Shaffer and Peggy Emerson started to touch behaviours and how to develop an account of how attached behaviour changes to the Baby gets older. They propose that there were full identifiable stay
A sequence which is observed in all babies
Stage one: a social stage
In a Baby’s first few weeks of its life it’s observable behaviour towards humans and animal object is very similar – hence the term asocial.
However, shuffle and Emerson did not believe that it’s entirely a social, because even at this stage, babies show science that they prefer to be with other people.
Babies also turned to show a preference for the company of familiar people, and almost easily comforted by them.
At this state, the baby is forming bond with certain people, and these formed the basis of light attachments.
Stage two indiscriminate attachment
From 2 to 7 months, Baby starts to display more obvious and observable social behaviour. They now show a clear preference of being with other humans rather than an animal object. They also recognise some further company familiar people. However, at this stage babies, you should accept, cuddles and comfort from any person – he term indiscriminate.
They do not usually show separation anxiety when caregiverslead their presence or stranger anxiety in the presence of unfamiliar people.
Size 3: specific attachment
Round 7 months, majority of babies starts display the classic signs of attachment towards one particular person. These science include anxiety, direct to strangers (strange anxiety), especially when they’re touching figure is absent, and anxiety, when separated from the attachment figure (separation, anxiety).
At this point, the Baby set up from the specific attachment. This person with whom the attachment is formed is called the primary attachment.
This person is not necessarily the individual. The child spent most time with, but the one who offered the most interactional response to the Baby signals with the most skill.
This is Baby’s mother in 65% of the cases.
Stage four multiple attachments
Surely after Baby starts to show attachment behaviour ( stranger anxiety and separation anxiety) towards one person they usually extend their behaviour to multiple attachments with other people with whom they regularly spend time.
These relationships are called secondary attachments. Shaffer and Emerson observed that 29% of the children from secondary attachments within a month of forming a primary attachment. By the age of one year, the majority of babies had developed multiple attachments.
Shuffle on Emerson‘s research
Shuffle Emerson, is there a stage theory on an observational study of the form of early infant attachments.
The specification does not require that you know the procedure details of the study, but they are useful background which may help you
Procedure – the study involves 60 babies – 31, male, 29 female. All from Glasgow and the majority work from skilled working class families. Research as visited babies and mothers in their own homes every month for the first year and again at 18 months.
The research just asked some other questions about the kind of protest. Their babies showed every day separations,.G.adults see the room (of separation, anxiety).
This was desired to measure the Baby attachment. The reset also stranger – the babies anxiety response on familiar people.