caregiver, infant interactions

• What is meant by the term attachment?

  Attachment is a strong, enduring, emotional and reciprocal bond between two people, especially an infant and caregiver.

  (Total 2 marks)
• features of caregiver -infant interaction

  • reciprocity
  • interactional synchrony
• What is meant by ‘reciprocity’ in the context of caregiver-infant interaction? (Total 2 marks)

  • a two way, mutual process (usually between caregiver and infant) involving responding to the action of another with a similar action, to sustain interaction
• how does reciprocity lead to atatchment

  • Brazelton suggested that this basic rhythm is important in later communications
  • The regularity ,of these symbols gives a chance for the caregiver to anticipate and respond to them which sets the basis for forming an attachment
• describe interactional synchrony

  • Interactional synchrony when two or more things move in the same pattern, so that they respond in time with one another.
  • for example, Meltzoff and moore study, Based off an adult model who did one of three facials or hand movements
  • A dummy was in their mouth to prevent an initial response and then removed
  • found an association between behaviour of the child and the adult model
• meltzoff an moore propsed imitation was intentional whereas

  piaget thought it was an innate reflex rather than an intentional imitation (Psuedo imitation)

  They are just repeating a behaviour which was rewarded 

  Not consciously translated what they had seen into a matching movement