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psychology: paper 1:
psychology: paper 1: attachment: introduction:
Question | Answer |
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1. define attachment | close reciprocal two way emotional bond between individuals |
2. what are babies born with? | innate abilities eg sucking reflex |
3. define reciprocity | respond to action with another action to elicit another action |
4. who said reciprocity is like a dance? | Brazelton (1975) |
5. define interactional synchrony | simultaneously mirroring facial and body movements and imitating emotions |
6. when did Meltzoff and Moore conduct their study? | 1977 |
7. what was Meltzoff and Moore's procedure? | interactional synchrony in infants as young as 2 weeks old where adult do facial expression or 1 of 3 distinct gestures and filmed infant's response and identified by independent researchers |
8. what did Meltzoff and Moore find? | association between what adult did and what infant did if adult protrusion of tongue then infant did protrusion of tongue |
9. what did Meltzoff and Moore conclude? | interactional synchrony is innate |
10. what did Murray do? | played tapes of mothers interacting with infants and if no respond then show acute distress and tried to elicit response from mother |
12. strength of observations in caregiver behaviour? | controlled procedures being filmed from multiple angles so fine details can be later analysed also babies did not know or care about being recorded and observed so behaviour is constant |
13. how does it ignore individual differences? | Isabella (1989) found more strongly attached infant-caregiver pairs elicited greater synchrony so children respond differently depending on the nature of their attachment |
14. how is there real life application? | Meltzoff (2005) made a 'like me' hypothesis where infants acquire an understanding of what others feel and think, so interactional synchrony can help them understand adult social relationships |
15. how can context affect behaviour? | lab so curious of new surrounding and no pay attention as distracted |
16. how are there practical issues? | limited waking periods as infants always sleeping or crying so cannot be studied |
17. short term and long term effects? | there may be psychological harm as ignoring baby which may ruin attachment between infant and caregiver in the long term and affect rest of life |
18. how can this be socially sensitive information? | may be quite distressing and upsetting to hear if someone's own baby does not behave the way research said is good |