Attachment

Attachment

1. Caregiver-infant interactions

   • Reciprocity- the signals a baby makes to other people
     • Brazelton 1979- suggested at basic rhythm is important precursor to later communications.
   • Interactional synchrony- facial and hand gestures, expressions or hand movements.
     • Meltzofd and Moore 1977- first systematic study of IS, found that infants as young as two to three weeks old imitated specific facial and hand gestures - sticking tongue out, opening mouth and pouting. A dummy was played so the baby could imitate.
       • Suggests that behaviour is learned ie the behavioural response must be innate.
   • Real or pseudo-imitation