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Flashcards by Melissa O'Mahony, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Melissa O'Mahony
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Explain '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) |
| Explain '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) |
| {Definition} Reciprocity | A 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. |
| {Definition} Interactional Synchrony | Mother and infant reflect both the actions and emotions of the other and do this in a co-ordinated (synchronised) way. |
| Evaluation 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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