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Caregiver-Infant Interactions
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- 1Explain 'reciprocity' in terms of attachments.Reciprocity is a feature of caregiver-infant interactions.
Caregiver and infant both take active roles in initiating interactions.
Mothers take note of the interactions 2/3 of the time - Feldman (2007) - 2Explain 'interactional synchrony' in terms of attachments.Interactional synchrony is a feature of caregiver-infant interactions.
When caregiver an infant mirror each other's behaviours and emotions.
"The temporal co-ordination of micro-level social behaviour" - Feldman (2007) - 3{Definition} ReciprocityA description of how two people interact. Mother-infant interaction is reciprocal in that both infant and mother respond to each other's signals and each elicits a response from the other.
- 4{Definition} Interactional SynchronyMother and infant reflect both the actions and emotions of the other and do this in a co-ordinated (synchronised) way.
- 5Evaluation of Caregiver-Infant Interactions:) Pros:
~ Controlled observations = fine detail.
:( Cons:
~ Purpose of reciprocity and synchrony unknown.
~ Hard to know what's happening when observing infants.
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