care giver infant interactions

care giver infant interactions

1. ineractional synchrony

   • Baby moves it body in tune with the rythym of the caregivers spoekn langaueg this is simlilaneous and syncronised

2. reciprocity

3. sensitve responsiveness

   • ability of a caregiver to pick up on babies cues and respond to them apporpritly for example by proving milk or changing nappy

4. physical contact

   • hugging or breast feeding

5. child centred speech eg singin

6. Evaulations of care giver infant interactions

   • strength
     • supporting research - meltzoffe and moore
       • had partipants pull faces at 12-21 day old babies
         • then had blind papripiants look at the obervation and determine
           • infants responses immitated the mothers one
   • weakness
     • reliant on interferneces not cause and effect due to has to interpret the babies internal thought and idea
   • klaus and kennel
     • looked at physical contant such as cuddling and only physcial contant when breast feeding
       • more contact resulted in sstronger more posotive atatchments
         • therefore having real life practical application such as allowing mothers and babies to have contact after birth
   • high inter rater reliabilyt due to filmed from all angles
   • codon and sander videotaped interactions ebtween mothers and neonates and resposne to interactional siycnohyc - saw the baies moved i n time to the mother speech when looking between angles of the videos tapes