synchrony

Definition:
Synchrony is a mutual, interlocking pattern of attachment behaviors shared by a parent and a child. HGD, Chapter 6, p. 134

= Examples: = When a baby signals his needs by crying or smiling; he responds to being held by quieting or snuggling; he looks at the parents when they look at him.

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=In the News:= [|A Student of Synchrony] "The study of synchrony dates back to the 1970s, when William S. Condon, PhD, and Louis W. Sander, MD, observed that babies synchronize their movements with adult speech. Since then, other investigators have demonstrated the phenomenon's existence through expressions as simple as finger-tapping and as complex as thought and language. Some studies, for instance, show that people who tap their fingers in sync with an experimenter report liking the experimenter more than those asked to tap in a different rhythm. Other research finds that strangers paired up to solve puzzles made up of nonsense shapes develop a joint vocabulary for describing the shapes that enables them to more quickly solve the puzzle."

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