CAREGIVER INFANT INTERACTION

CAREGIVER INFANT INTERACTION

1. A03

2. TESTING INFANT BEHAVIOUR IS DIFFICULT

   • Infants mouths are constantly moving so its hard to distinguish between, general activity and specific imitation such as sticking out their tongue and smiling , so its difficult to accurately measure infant behaviour, however this was over come by asking someone who had no idea of the behaviours imitated to judge

3. FAILURE TO REPLICATE

   • STUDY BY KOEPKE found that MELZOOF and MOORES study was unable to be replicated . there study was less controlled. infants were unable to differentiate between live/ video interactions so the infant was not responding to the mother. suggesting that the research is unreliable. marian says that the problem lied in the procedure and not the infants being unable to imiate the behaviour

4. IS THE BEHAVIOUR INTENTIONAL

   • ABRAVANEL AND DEYOUNG wanted to find out how infants aged 5-12 respond to inanimate objects which had open and closing mouth and tongue movements. they found that infants don't respond to everything they see.