Caregiver-Infant Interactions

• What is defined as a deep emotional bond between infants and caregivers?

  Attachment
• Which of the following is one of the important forms of caregiver-infant interactions?

  Reciprocity
• What is reciprocity in the context of caregiver-infant interactions?

  Responding to each other’s signals
• Which of the following best describes interactional synchrony?

  Reflecting each other's actions and emotions
• What are the important forms of caregiver-infant interactions?

  • Reciprocity
  • Interactional synchrony
  • Imitation
  • Body contact
  • Child-directed speech
• Which researchers found infants could imitate facial gestures?

  Meltzoff and Moore
• According to Meltzoff and Moore, what does infant imitation of facial gestures indicate?

  Ability for reciprocity and imitation
• Who found evidence of interactional synchrony in neonates' movements matching adult speech?

  Condon and Sander
• What does Condon and Sander's research suggest about neonates?

  An innate ability for social interaction
• How do studies on caregiver-infant interactions improve inter-rater reliability and internal validity?

  Using observers blind to the study aims
• Why is research on caregiver-infant interactions considered by some to be unscientific?

  It relies on assumptions about behavior
• What is reciprocity similar to in a conversation?

  Turn-taking
• Why might it be a weakness that infants cannot communicate their thoughts?

  Research relies on assumptions