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• interactions between a caregiver and infant serve to develop and maintain a communication and attachment between the two.

  • how each infant-caregiver interacts with each other is crucial for infants future development.
• two features of infant-caregiver interactions-

  • reciprocity
  • interactional synchrony
• reciprocity means turn taking during an interaction.

  • infants send out 'alert phases' through facial/vocal expressions which the caregiver picks up on and then responds to accordingly.
• interactional synchrony is when interactions and emotions between caregiver and infant 'mirror' each other.

  • the infant and caregiver act as if they are one person