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Baby-caregiver interactions - Coggle Diagram
Baby-caregiver interactions
Reciprocity and interactional synchrony
Reciprocity :
Interactions between caregiver and infant involve mutual responsiveness.
Interactional synchrony:
Interactions between caregiver and infant are 'synchronised' so that their responses reflect each other
Maccoby's 4 behaviours to show an attachment
Seperation anxiety
Reunion
Seeking proximity
Orientation
AO3:
Tronick et al (1975) "still face experiment" - after 3 minutes of attempted interaction with a non responsive caregiver, infants rapidly grow wary. They made repeated attempts to get the interaction into its usual reciprocal pattern and after this, the infant withdrew and turned their face and body away from the mother with a hopeless facial expression
Meltzoff and Moore (1997) experiment using 6 babies aged 12-27 days old and 12 babies aged 16-21 days. The babies were shown facial gestures and manual gestures, and babies aged 12-21 days old could imitate gestures, suggesting that this ability is present from birth and serves an important function
Practical applications: The still face experiment can be used to measure atypical development in children, i.e. if children are not showing distress in the still face experiment, perhaps further investigation may be needed. This means that help can be provided to those children and their caregivers by diagnosing any disorders early on
Stages of attachment
Indiscriminate 3-7 months
Specific 7/8+ months
Pre attachment/asocial 0-3 months
Multiple attachment 9months onward
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