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In depth notes for AQA A Level Psychology Attachment module in Cornell note format. Includes caregiver- infant interactions, Schaffer’s stages of attachment, animal studies of attachment, learning theory, Ainsworth’s Strange Situation, cultural variations in attachment, Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation, Romanian orphan studies, attachment and later relationships. Notes include content and evaluation produced by a top grade A Level student.

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,Caregiver-infant interactions :

Spec :

Caregiver-infant interactions in humans :

reciprocity + interactional Synchrony.The role of the father.



reciprocity
: a description Reciprocity
:




of how two people From birth babies ,
+ their mothers spend a lot of time in intense + pleasurable interactions.
interact .

Mother-infant Babies have periodic 'alea phases where
they will
signal that
they are
ready for an


interaction is reciprocal interaction. Mothers
typically pick up + respond to this about 2 of the time (Feldman
in that both infant + + Eidelman , 2007)
From 3 months
mother respond to each around ,
this interaction tends to be
increasingly frequent +
other's
Signals + each involves close attention to each other's verbal Signals + facial expressions (Feldman 2007) ,




elicits a response from A
key element of this interaction is
reciprocity
. An interaction is reciprocal when each
the other- person responds to the other + elicits a response from them.

interactional
Synchrony Traditional Views on childhood have seen the
baby in a passive role but it appears
:
,




infant reflect that both mother + child (an initiate interaction doing Brazelton
mother + + both take turn in
So .




both the actions + et al (1975) describes the interaction as a dance

emotions of the other

do this a Interactional
↓ in
Synchrony :



Co-ordinated This 'the temporal co-ordination of micro-level social behaviour (Feldman,
way
. may be defined as
2007). It takes place When mother+ child interact in such a
way that the actions +
emotions often mirror one another.

Meltzoff + Moore (1977) -
Observed the
beginnings of interactional
Synchrony in infants

as
young as two weeks old . An adult
displayed facial
motor expressions. The child's response was filmed +


identified by independent observers. An association was


found between the expression that the adult made+

the actions of the babies .




Isabella et al (1989) 30 mothers found
observed + infants together + that the better
-




the
quality of attachment , the more common interactional


synchrony was.




Parent-infant attachment :




Schaffer Emerson (1964) found that the of babies formed attachments
majority primary
+


to their mothers + formed Secondary attachments to other
family members
(including the

father). In 75% of the infants studied , an attachment was formed with the father
18 months. This was determined the fact that the infants protested When their
by by
father walked away
-

a
sign of attachment .




The vole of the father :




Grossman (2002) carried out a
longitudinal Study + found that
quality of infant attachme
hts of mothers had an impact on the child's attachments in adolescence. But , the fathers quality of

related to the
quality of adolescent relationships If the fathers are the primary care-
was .
play
givers ,
it is found that
they take on the role of the mother Tiffany Field (1978) found that most .




princing caregiver fathers share similarities with primary caregiver mothers than
secondary caregiver
fathers suggesting that is more about roles than genders.
,




Evaluation:
know (Gs .
X it's hard to what's happening when observing infants . X fathers inconsistantly primary/secondary
are

~ controlled observations capture fine detail X difference for children who fathers?
observations don't tell the purpose of 1S . socially sensitive
x us
reciprocity + X

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Publisher: mei 2020 ISBN: 9781912820429 Edition: 2

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