Interaction

Interaction

1. Meshing

   • how adult/infant behaviour fit/integrate with each other
     • turn-taking in conversation, proto conversations
       • adult fit behaviour around baby's, pseudo dialogue takes place
         • Brazelton & Cramer- even v young babies active participants in interaction
           • important to provide experience of dialogue, relatedness
             • baby forms representation of other
               • own behaviour has meaning since adult responds to it consistently
                 • still-face - 2-3 mth sensitive to responsiveness

2. Burst-pause feeding pattern

   • provides structure for mom to fit contribution of interaction
     • Kaye & Brazelton- mom jiggles baby in sucking pauses
       • seemed to lengthen pauses, new sucking burst when jiggle stops
         • synchronicity, conversation like

3. face to face play

   • Kaye & Fogel- development of meshing of infant greeting
     • 6wk-random, no control, entirely reactive to mom
       • 13wk- occurs in packages, burst-pause. still reactive but some proactive, initiated by baby
         • 26wk-clustered, reactive & proactive equally balanced
           • mom greetings modified to fit baby behaviour

4. pseudo dialogues become proto dialogues

   • not meaningful labguage content, but interactive
     • motherese, repetition, raised pitch, exaggerated expression
       • consistent, broad range of behaviours to make social interaction
         • easier for baby to learn