Chapter 6 (185 - 197)

Question 1

social referencing

Answer 1

infants and young children look to their caregiver for ‘advice’ when faced with a difficult or uncertain situation and seek social cues (such as smiling or frowning) to guide their actions

Question 2

visual cliff

Answer 2

a piece of apparatus used to study depth perception in infants, consisting of a glass table with a checkerboard pattern immediately beneath the glass on one half (shallow side) and on the floor below on the other half (deep side)

Question 3

script

Answer 3

a generalised framework for commonly experienced events or situations, with a stored representation of what one would expect to happen in such situations

Question 4

emotional ambiguity

Answer 4

the realisation that a person’s feelings may not be clear-cut or match your own emotional response

Question 5

mind-mindedness

Answer 5

caregivers who are able to ‘read’ their infant’s signals appropriately. maternal mimd-mindedness is a good predictor of attachment security

Question 6

callous-unemotional traits

Question 7

emotion regulation

Answer 7

adjusting one’s emotional state to a suitable level of intensity. this prevents emotional ‘overload’ and allows one to function in a consistent manner