caregiver-infant interactions

• What is attachment?

  A close two way emotional bond between individuals in which each individual sees the other as essential for their own emotional security.
• Reciprocity:

  This develops by about three months. The interaction is reciprocal, when each person responds to the other's signals.
• Interactional synchrony:

  The infant and the mother mirror the actions and emotions of each other in a synchronised way.