Caregiver infant interactions

• Who carried out the reciprocity study in caregiver infant interactions

  Feldman
• what is reciprocity in caregiver infant interactions


  Infant + parent respond to each others signals causing response from each other E.G turn taking. Periodic alert phases signaling reciprocity E.G eye contact
• What was the reciprocity study of caregiver infant interactions

  Observed baby interactions, found as age increases so does reciprocity, From 3 months old interactions are very in sync
• Who carried out the study into Interactional synchrony for caregiver infant interactions

  Meltzoff and Moore
• what is interactional synchrony in caregiver infant interactions


  When actions mirror another's actions, E.G baby + mother carry out action simultaneously such as sticking out tongue to copy each other
• What was the interactional synchrony study of caregiver infant interactions


  Observe very young babies, adults display different facial expressions + hand gestures, measure babies response. Found association between expression of adult and baby response
• Strength of the interactional synchrony study of caregiver infant interactions

  Application to real life> assessed attachment quality, found high quality attachment had high levels of interactional synchrony
• Strength studies of caregiver infant interactions



  High inter-observer reliability = increases reliability, high control as Lab setting
• Weaknesses of studies of caregiver infant interactions



  Hard to observe babies = low validity. However this is a moot point because baby isnt aware it is being observed so no chance of demand characteristics so affects nothing