Caregiver Interactions

Caregiver Interactions

1. Interactional Synchrony

   • Meltzoff and Moore found that infants imitated specific facial and hand gestures
     • infants as young as 3 days old were displaying the behaviour
   • when 2 people interact, one person mirrors the actions of the other

2. Reciprocity

   • Responding to the action of another with a similar action. The responses are not necessarily similar and in interactional synchrony
     • Jaffe et al, 1973. demonstrated that infants coordinated their actions with caregivers
       • Brazelton 1979 suggested that this basic rhyhtm is an important precursor to later communications

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