Caregiver-infant interactions

Question 1

What is attachment?

Answer 1

a TWO way emotional bond between two individuals.

Question 2

What is reciprocity?

Answer 2

How two people interact. Caregiver-infant interaction reciprocity is where both caregiver and baby respond to each others SIGNALS

Question 3

What is an alert phase?

Answer 3

phases where a baby will signal that they are ready for an INTERACTION.

Question 4

What did Feldman find about the alert phase?

Answer 4

mothers pick up on it 2/3 times
-this varies according to mothers SKILL and EXTERNAL factors e.g. stress

Question 5

what is caregiver-infant interactional synchrony?

Answer 5

Where the caregiver and baby REFLECT both the actions and emotions of the other in a SYNCHRONISED way. (Mirror)

Question 6

What was Meltzoff and Moore’s study for interactional synchrony?

Answer 6

-babies as young as 2 weeks old
-an adult displayed 1 of 3 facial expressions, and the babies response was filmed and labelled by independent observers.
-babies expressions were more likely to mirror those of the adults.

Question 7

what did Isabella find about interactional synchrony?

Answer 7

-observed 30 mothers and babies together to assess degree of synchrony.

-HIGH levels of synchrony associated with better QUALITY mother-baby ATTACHMENT.