attachment

• attachment is a strong emotional bond between infant and caregiver
• features of attachment - sensitive responsivness - imitation - interactional synchrony - reciprocity - motherese
• sensitive respinsiveness - the caregiver responding appropriatly to signals from the infant
• imitation - the infant copies the caregivers actions and behaviours
• interactional synchrony - infants react to cargivers speech - conversation dance
• reciprocity - interaction flows back and forth between caregiver and infant
• motherese - slow high pitched way of speaking to infants
• meltzoff and moore - infants between 2 and 3 weeks tried to imitate facial expressions
• schaffer and emerson - glasgow babies - found4 stages of attachment - asocial - indiscriminate - discriminate - multiple
• schaffer and emerson crit - babies all from same area - low ecological validity
• asocial - first 0-3 months - baby seperates people from objects
• indiscriminate - 6 weeks - 7 months - distinguish between people - smiling more at those it knows but no preference
• discriminate - 7 -11 months - stranger and seperation anxiety
• multiple - 9 months plus - attachments to many people
• schaffer and emerson crit - biased and unreliable
• role of the father - schaffer and emerson - 1/3 of infants formed first attachment with the father -
• gieger - differences between mothers and fathers relationship types - mother nurturing and caring - father playful