The Influence of Absences of Caregiver Responsiveness in Social Interactions on the Development of Infant Social Bids
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Social bids are any social behaviour an infant uses to capture their caregiver’s attention to engage in a social activity. Researchers have shown that infants learn to expect caregivers to respond to their social bids and that they may re-attempt a social bid when they do not receive the expected caregiver response. However, the influence of these moments of non-caregiver responsiveness on infant social bid development has been overlooked. In this thesis, I provide a longitudinal description that traces how these moments influence the diversity and amount of the social bids of two caregiver-infant dyads. I found, in line with past research, that infants will re-attempt the same or different social bid when their caregiver is unresponsive. To add, I found that infants increase the diversity and amount of their social bidding over time due to the events of caregiver non-responsiveness. Lastly, infants demonstrated highly idiosyncratic differences in their social bid presentations and changes in relation to caregiver non-responsiveness. These findings suggest that moments of caregiver non-responsiveness may play an important role in the development of infants’ social bid development, which predates their future language and social development.
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