How do we form Attachments?

• Which researchers found support for the four stages of attachment?

  Schaffer and Emerson.
• What is meant by: Reciprocity?

  Reciprocity is the first caregiver-infant interaction, which is when the infant and the caregiver both take turns in an interaction, so that they respond to each-other’s actions.
• What is meant by: Interactional synchrony?

  When the caregiver and the infant perform similar actions in time with one another.
• Which researchers first found evidence that babies and caregivers display interactional synchrony?

  Condon and Sander.
• Which researchers first found evidence that interactional synchrony is correlated with the strength of attachments?

  Isabella et al.