Caregiver infant interactions

Caregiver infant interactions

1. Reciprocity

   • The matching of actions in two people
   • Tronick
     • Asked mothers to engage in normal dialogue then ask the mother to stop moving
       • The babies would grow increasingly distressed
     • This suggests babies anticipate similar responses to their social releasers
   • Meltzoff and Moore (1997)
     • Babies were shown facial gestures to investigate their ability to imitate
     • Found that 12-21 days could imitate facial and manual gestures
     • Suggested that the ability to imitate plays a massive part in later social and cognitive devolpement

2. Interactional sychrony

   • The coordination between to people behaviors happens at the same time