Ch 6 Flashcards

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Generalized Distress Response

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More basic attraction to pleasant and withdrawal from unpleasant

  • Responses are mostly uncensored and caregivers must help to manage emotions
  • Infants
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Toddler Distress Responses

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More complex and sophisticated

-Emotions are more recognizable

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Erikson’s Theory

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Ego is in charge of censoring emotion

  • Ego is conscious rational part
  • Demands on ego vary across culture and life
  • Ego must continually alter to meet age-graded changes
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Basic Trust vs Mistrust Stage

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1st year

-Need responsiveness from sympathetic and loving caregiver

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Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt Stage

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2nd year

-Need suitable guidance, reasonable choices, and tolerance and understanding from caregiver

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First Appearance of Happiness

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  • Smile from birth
  • Social smile 6-10wks
  • Laugh 3-4 months
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First Appearance of Fear

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  • Increase in fear second half of 1st year

- Stranger anxiety 8-12 months

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First Appearance of Anger

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  • General Distress from birth

- Anger 4-6 months (increases in intensity and freq in toddlerhood)

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Social Referencing

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Use caregiver’s reaction to gauge new situations (8-10 months)
Recognize other’s facial expression 4-5 months

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Self-Conscious Emotions

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Shame, embarrassment, guilt, pride, envy

  • Middle of 2nd year
  • Children become aware of self as separate and unique
  • Need adult instruction
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Emotion Self-Regulation

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Adjust own state of emotional intensity

  • Requires effortful control (voluntary)
  • Grows over 1st year with brain development and w/ caregiver help
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Parent Contribution to Emotion Regulation (Early Months)

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  • Lift to shoulder, rock gently, stroke back or head, soft talking, distract and reorient attention
  • Initiating face to face play and joint attention to expand tolerance for stimulation
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Parent Contribution to Emotion Regulation (4-6 months)

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Read kids emotions early and respond w/ sympathy

-Reinforce/model pos emotions and seek caregiver as secure base

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Parent Contribution to Emotion Regulation (18mo-2yrs)

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Use and encourage emotion related vocab

  • When kids don’t get what the want and act up, don’t give in
  • Offer distracting alternative
  • Later discussion on how to handle adult refusal
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Temperament

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Epigenetic and early appearing stable individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation

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Reactivity

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Speed and intensity of emotional arousal, attention and motor activity
-Component of temperament

17
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Self-Regulation

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Strategies modifying reactivity

-Component of temperament

18
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New York Longitudinal Study

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Thomas and Chess 1956

  • Supported 3 clusters of characteristics
  • Temperament can buffer or exaggerate the neg impacts of stress in the home
19
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Thomas and Chess 1977

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Parenting practices can influence temperament

-Temperament is plastic but somewhat stable

20
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Effortful Control

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Rothbart

-Voluntary suppression of dominant response to execute a more favorable one

21
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Easy Temperament

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Quickly est routines in infancy, cheerful, adapts easily to new experiences
-40%

22
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Difficult Temperament

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Irregular routines, slow to accept new experiences

  • Tend to react negatively and intensely
  • 10%
23
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Slow to Warm Temperament

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Inactive, mild to low-key reactions to stimuli

  • Neg, in mood and adjust slowly
  • 15%
24
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Hard to classify

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Do not fit into one category

-35%

25
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Stability of Temperament

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Develop with age

-Development of effortful control and frontal lobe cause change in temperament

26
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Goodness of Fit Model

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The impact of a child’s temperament on development depends on how their temperament fits demand of social context
-Favorable if there is a match

27
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Attachment

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Ainsworth

  • An affectional tie that an infant forms with caregiver
  • Bowlby
28
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Insecure Avoidant

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Avoids connection w/ caregiver

-Seems not to care about caregiver’s presence, departure or return

29
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Secure

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May or may not cry at separation

-Gets comfort and confidence from presence of caregiver

30
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Insecure Resistant

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Anxiety and uncertainty

-Very upset at separation, resists and seeks comfort from caregiver

31
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Disorganized

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Inconsistent reactions to caregiver’s departure and return

32
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Predictors of Secure Attachment

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Parents responsive, sensitive, and consistent

  • Synchrony
  • Infants use relationships to develop working model
33
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Synchrony

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Well-timed responsiveness to infant emotions

34
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Attachment and Later Development

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Secure attachment related to pos. outcomes in social, moral, confidence, emotion regulation, academic areas in preschool and middle childhood