Attachment - enduring and reciprocal emotional bond that ties two people,
Interactional synchrony- where an infant and an adult responds to the actions of another person, for example, their facial expressions or body movements, perfectly in time with the other individual in order to sustain communication.
Reciprocity- is where infant and caregiver respond to each other's signals which elicits a response almost as if turn-taking.
attachment- an emotional tie or bond between 2 people
primarily a caregiver and a child
Reciprocity- from birth babies and their mothers spend a lot of time engaged in intense and pleasurable interactions
Reciprocity is when each person responds to the other and elicits a response from them
Example of reciprocity- smiling- two way, turn taking basis
Reciprocity- babies have a periodic alert phase, signal readiness for interaction, eg sounds or eye contact,
Interactional sychrony- two people are said to be synchronised when they carry out the same action simultaneously
Meltzoff and moore- 1977, observed the beginnings of interactional synchrony in infants as young as 2 weeks old, adults displayed 2 of 3 facial expressions or gestures and the infants reaction was filmed and identified. Adults displayed 2 of 3 facial expressions or gestures and the infants reaction was filmed and identified.
