Caregiver-infant interactions

• Caregiver – infant interactions-

  Reciprocity- turn taking of actions between the baby and primary care giver.

  Interactional synchronicity- in unison, same action simultaneously.
• Caregiver-infant interactions

  Isabella (1989)-

  • 30 mothers and babies observed
  • Assessing synchronicity so that high levels = high quality attachment.
• Caregiver- infant interactions

  Meltzoff and Moore (1977)-

  • Recorded and observed from 2 weeks old infants.
  • Adults making faces/gestures, infants recorded and give labels from independent observers.
  • Found that babies showed interactional synchrony from 3 weeks.
• Caregiver-infant interactions

  S- Recorded allows other psychologists to view the same experiment and give their own opinions, so has inter-rather reliability.

  W- Hard to interpret babies behaviour, so you can’t be certain the behaviours have special meaning.
• Caregiver-infant interactions

  CPS- Isabella et al (1989) getting to interactional synchronicity predicts the development of good quality attachment.

  CPW- Feldman (2007) – synchrony is an observed pattern and random so can’t give the reason for them.