Caregiver-Infant Interactions Flashcards
(21 cards)
What does Tronik support?
Reciprocity.
Support for reciprocity?
Tronik.
Describe Tronik.
Still Face Experiment - mothers stopped responding to their babies signals. The children tried to provoke responses and became very distressed when their mothers did not respond.
What did Johnson and Morton support?
Innate attachment.
Support for innate attachment?
Johnson and Morton.
Describe Johnson and Morton.
Babies were shown a schematic face, and scrambled face, and a control face. Even when the infants were just an hour old, they spent more time looking at the schematic face.
What did Meltzoff and Moore support?
Interactional synchrony.
Support for interactional synchrony?
Meltzoff and Moore.
Describe Meltzoff and Moore.
Filmed the reactions of infants when an experimenter made facial expressions at them. Observers found an association between the experimenter’s face and the infant’s reaction as young as two weeks old.
What do Taylor et al. support?
Fathers cannot be primary caregivers.
Support for fathers cannot be primary caregivers?
Taylor et al.
Describe Taylor et al.
Found that female hormones, such as oestrogen, create higher levels of nurturing, biologically pre-disposing women to be primary caregivers.
What does Grossman support?
Fathers as playmates.
Support for fathers as playmates?
Grossman.
Describe Grossman.
Conducted a longitudinal study, finding that with good quality adolescent attachments was linked to good quality nurture in infancy with mothers, and good quality play in infancy with fathers.
What does Field support?
Fathers can demonstrate sensitive responsiveness.
Support for fathers demonstrating sensitive responsiveness?
Field.
Describe Field.
Filmed interactions between infants and primary caregiver mothers, primary caregiver fathers, and secondary caregiver fathers. Found that primary fathers spent more time holding, smiling and imitating their infants than secondary caregiver fathers.
What do MacCallum and Golombok contradict?
The role of the father.
Contradictory evidence for the role of the father?
MacCallum and Golombok
Describe MacCallum and Golombok.
Found that infants tend to develop similarly in same-sex or single parent families.
