9. Processing Affect 1

Question 1

Define Synchrony
An o____ process that c____ the ongoing exchange of s____, h____ and p____ stimuli between p____ and c____ social interactions

Answer 1

Overarching, co-ordinates, sensory, hormonal, physiological, parent, child

Question 2

Best functioning mother-infant d____ are in a____ states about 28-34% of the time

Answer 2

dyads
attunded

Question 3

Reck et al (2004) found that repair of mistakes in face-to-face interactions with infants occur within ___-___ seconds

Answer 3

3-5 seconds

Question 4

Müller et al (2015) found latency to interactive repair is related to…

Answer 4

Infant cortisol reactivity

Question 5

Gunnar and Donzella (2002) found sensitive re-attuning does what three things?

Answer 5

Regulates physiology
Builds resilience
Builds trust

Question 6

Maternal touch can …. during ….

Answer 6

Lower infant’s heart rate during arousal

Question 7

Co-____ is critical in child-caregiver dyads given p____ development of n____ system

Answer 7

regulation, protracted, neural

Question 8

N____ regions can alter l____ activity

Answer 8

Neocortical, limbic

Question 9

What is likely to heighten children’s vulnerability to environmental influences?

Answer 9

Immaturity

Question 10

infants had lower amygdala reactivity response when presented with an image of what compared to an image of a stranger?

Answer 10

Image of their own mother

Question 11

Children’s false alarm rate for fearful faces improved significantly when…
Improved the most for children who showed the largest…

Answer 11

When seated next to their mother
Maternal buffering effects on the amygdala during fmRI scanning session

Question 12

Dyadic affective processing is a precursor for what?
These things provide a foundation for what?

Answer 12

Trust, security and self-regulation
More complex coherent function