Interactions

• reciprocity 


  each person responds to the other and elicits a response back (turn talking)
• alert phases 


  babies signal when they want to interact/communicate
• Feldman and Eidwoman


  mothers pick up alert phases and respond 2/3 times
• interational synchrony 


  mirroring each others actions and emotions
• similarity - both are reciprocal actions

  difference - intersectional synchrony shows quality of attachment
• Meltzoff and Moore (1977)

  • observed infants aged 2-3 weeks
  • shows interactional synchrony
• isabella et al (1989)

  higher synchrony = better secure attachment

  • socially sensitive - implies mothers shouldn’t return to work
• strengths of filmed observations

  • lab = control over extraneous variables
  • able to rewatch + overt observation = valid
• weaknesses of filmed observation

  • hard to interpret babies behaviour
  • Feldman - observing doesn’t show level of development