Care giver infant interactions Flashcards
(16 cards)
Attachment
An emotional bond tie between two people that is shown through their behaviour
What is reciprocity?
How two people interact and both infant and caregiver respond to each others signals and respond to each other. ‘turn taking’
What is active involvement
Brazelton et al describes reciprocity as a dance as both people are actively involved in reciprocity
-They respond to each others moves
What did Feldman (2007) suggest?
-Alert phase
Babies have alert faces and the mothers pick up on this 2/3 of the time and respond
who conducted the still face experiment?
Tronick et al
Summarise the still face experiment
-The mother and infant ate interacting, playing, talking
-The mum abruptly stops and has a still face with no expression
-Infant notices and tries to re engage mum, clapping and making sounds
-Doesn’t work and the infant becomes distressed
What did the still face experiment demonstrate?
This experiment demonstrates the importance of reciprocal interaction in early attachment and highlighted how infants are sensitive to social cues, relying on caregiver responsiveness to regulate their emotions
Evaluation of the still face experiment
-unethical, short term
-bias , forgotten father- only considers mum
What is interactional synchrony?
Two people are said to be synchronised when they carry out the same action simultaneously. Interactional synchrony can also be defined as ‘the temporal co-ordination of micro-level social behaviour’
- Takes place when a care giver and baby interact in such a way that their actions and emotions mirror the other.
What did Feldman say about interactional synchrony?
Mother and infant reflect both the actions and emotions of the other in a co ordinated way
What did Meltzoff and Moore suggest?
They observed the beginning of interactional synchrony in babies as young as 2 weeks old . An adult displayed one of the three facial expressions or one of the three distinctive gestures. The baby’s response was filmed and labelled by independent observers. Babies expressions and gestures were more likely to mirror those of the adults.
What did Isabella suggest?
High levels of the interactional synchrony the better quality of attachment
Bodily contact
skin to skin contact helps strengthen the attachment
Caregiverese
-Adults use a specific speech pattern so that infants can have access to simple conversation
strengths of caregiver infant interactions
observations - can be well controlled
Good reliability
Good internal validity
Weakness
Difficult to observe babies
-lack of communication uncertain about the babies perspective so therofre subjective
-Socially sensitive topic
-implies mother is needed for attachment
-implies mother needs to stay at home
