Caregiver - Infant Interactions

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Attachment - Shaffer, a close emotional relationship between 2 people characterised by mutual affection and a desire to maintain closeness. Attachments are strong emotional bonds that form as a result if interactions between 2 people.

Reciprocity - during the caregiver-infant interactions reciprocal behaviour is behaviour that us produced as a response to the behaviour of another person or behaviour that is produced to elicit the response from another person maybe through social releasers .

Interactional synchrony - the behaviour of caregiver and infants who move in time which each other and who appear to take turns on communication.

Interaction between caregiver and infant helps to develop and maintain attachment. Interactions include reciprocity, imitation, interactional synchrony and the use of modified language.

Interactional synchrony and reciprocity. Interactional synchrony refers to how parent's speech and an infants behaviours finely coordinated and synchronised so that they are in direct response to one another. Babies move moved in time with the conversation and appeared to take turns. Its described as reciprocal behaviour.

Imitation - 2/3 week old babies spontaneously imitated adults expressions and movements.

Modified language - caregivers modify their language and use motherese when they speak to younger babies. Motherese is a slow, high-pitched repetitive way of speaking in short, simple sentences and varying tone. The use of motherese may contribute ti effective turn taking and aid attachment.