C-I INTERACTIONS

• reciprocity:

  interaction - responding to each other's signals
• infants show reciprocity at...

  3 months
• feldman (2007) :

  interactions tend to be more frequent - involving close attention to each other's expressions
• interactional synchronicity:

  reflecting actions and emotions of the other in a synchronised way
• infants start to show interactional synchronicity at...

  2 weeks
• meltzoff and moore (2007)

  experiment where infant copied adult
• Schaffer and Emerson (2007) :

  majority of babies became attached to their mothers at 7 months
• Grossman (2002) :

  attachment with mothers nurture attachments in future
• Grossman (2002):

  play and stimulation with fathers nurtures attachments in future
• father being primary caregiver:

  adopt nurturing roles (smiling, holding hands)
• attachment depends on:

  levels of responsiveness and nurture
• limitation of caregiver-infant interactions is....

  we don't know what is taking place from the infant's perspective
• the problem with the limitation of the C-I interactions is...

  don't know if the baby's actions are deliberate or conscious

  questioning validity
• strength of C-I interactions....

  imitative behaviour forms the basis for social development
• meltzoff (2005) - me hypothesis

  connection between what the infant sees and their imitation
• melzoff (2005) argument is ....

  children begin to understand what others think and feel , conducting relationships