Attachment
,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
,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
