Exploring Adult-Infant Interactions in a Learning Environment

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2) Adult/Teacher Interaction: • An example when an adult was scaffolding an infant during the time I was observing Lab 1 would be when George of 1 year and 3 months was wobbly walking and exploring his surroundings and worryingly one of the instructors said “no, no” and instead he walked towards another designated play era and uncertain he looked back and made eye contact with the same instructor. She reassured him that he could go play into the area by gesturing and saying “that’s okay ” so he proceeded to play in that area. • I did not notice an adult instructor engaging in an infant-adult directed speech because two of the adult instructors seemed to be students as well and were observing infant Desmond of 9 months. Desmond was playing …show more content…

At first he was being fed his baby bottle and the day care giver burped him. Eric then began to get fussy and started crying and couldn’t be soothed by the caregiver holding him. The emotional state that he was in was sadness. A third caregiver then comforted him because as I observed his situation. The stage that best describes the infant in Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory is Trust vs. Mistrust. One reason that this could be is because during the first years of a baby’s life they face natural feelings of uncertainty. The second reason why is because since Eric didn’t get comforted until the third caregiver took him he could lack confidence in the environment around him. A third reason could be that he has heightened insecurities. This child’s emotional development compares with his normative development by showing the primary emotions. Infants don’t hide their emotions, but display them openly as an important means of communication, as Eric was doing by crying. The baby develops a repertoire of signals like the cry. The common characteristic of these behaviors is that they all help provide comfort and security by bringing a protective, caregiving adult close to the baby (Steinberg, Bornstein, Vandell, & Rook,

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