Chapter 6 Flashcards

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Erikson emphasized…

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…quality of caregiving. When caregiving is loving the child learns trust.

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Basic Trust

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Trusting infants expects the world to be good, fostering confidence

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Mistrust

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Mistrustful infants cannot trust the kindness of others & withdraws for self-protection

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Factors that impact parental responsiveness

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SES, additional children, finances can all impact caregiving

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Toddlers learn autonomy when…

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…parents give the freedom to make appropriate choices with some guidance.

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Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt

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Toddlers want to decide for themselves regarding toileting, food, & clothing

Autonomous 2 year olds are not criticized for failure while learning new things; they will experience shame/doubt if they have parents who are controlling/very critical

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Basic Emotions

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Happiness, interest, surprise, fear, anger, sadness, disgust

Newborns show attraction to pleasant stimuli & withdrawal from negative stimuli

Infant use facial, vocal, & gestural clues to how their feeling

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Caregivers who mirror infant emotions…

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…help child to structure emotion. Pleasant mirroring encourages positive infant faces.

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Parental Depression & Child Development

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Newly developing infant/toddler needs a responsive parent to grow. Depressed mother/father is not sufficiently responsive, thus the relationship suffers & the child does not get what they need to develop.

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Understanding & Responding to Emotions of others: 0-3 months

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Baby is sensitive to emotional tone of caregiver

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Understanding & Responding to Emotions of others: 3 months

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Baby is sensitive to the timing of face-to-face interactions & expects positive replies to positive emotions

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Understanding & Responding to Emotions of others: 4-5 months

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Infant can tell positive from negative emotion & has wider emotions

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Understanding & Responding to Emotions of others: 8-10 months

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Infant has Social Referencing, active need for emotional information from the caregiver in an uncertain situation

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Self-conscious emotions…

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…come after basic emotions & involve helping or hurting sense of self. Arise 18-24 months as child develops sense of self.

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Self-conscious emotions include…

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…envy, guilt, shame, embarrassment, & pride.

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Self-Conscious emotions require…

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…adult telling the child when to be ashamed, proud, or guilty.

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Individualist societies encourage…

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…pride in achievement whereas collectivist societies encourage embarrassment when singled out for achievement.

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Emotional Self-Regulation

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Strategies we use to adjust emotions to comfortable levels to accomplish goals.

Ability to shift attention helps infant control emotions after 3 months.

Parents who respond to their child’s emotions & know what to do help children to begin to process their emotions.

By 24 months, kinds have the words for emotions but cant perfectly regulate & thus have tantrums.

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Emotional Self-Regulation develops as a…

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…dynamic system to include the prefrontal cortex & the brain areas of emotional reactivity & control.

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Thomas & Chess’s Model of Temperament

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Developed from a 1956 study of 141 children from infancy to adulthood

Certain features of temperament increase chances of psychological issues or protect from negative problems

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T&C Model: Easy Child

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40% - Establishes regular routines, is cheerful, & adapts to new experiences

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T&C Model: Difficult Child

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10% - Irregular in routines, slow to new experiences, reacts negatively & intensely

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T&C Model: Slow-to-Warm-Up Child

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15% - Inactive, mild/low-key reactions to the environment, negative emotions, slow adjustment to new experiences

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T&C Model: Unclassified Child

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35% - Show a blend of multiple characteristics

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Dimensions of Mary Rothbart’s Model of Temperament

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Reactivity: Activity Level, Attention Span/Persistence, Fearful Distress, Irritable Distress, Positive Affect

Self-Regulation: Effortful Control

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Rothbart Dimension: Activity Level

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Level of gross-motor activity

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Rothbart Dimension: Attention Span/Persistence

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Duration of orienting/interest

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Rothbart Dimension: Fearful Distress

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Wariness & distress in response to intense or normal stimuli

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Rothbart Dimension: Irritable Distress

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Extent of fussing, crying & distress when desires are frustrated

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Rothbart Dimension: Positive Affect

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Frequency of expression of happiness & pleasure

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Rothbart Dimension: Effortful Control

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Capacity to voluntarily suppress dominant responses in order to plan more adaptive responses

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Attachment

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Strong affectionate tie we have with special people in our lives that gives us pleasure when we interact with them

By 6-12 months, infants attach to the people who have cared for them

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Freud said the foundation of attachment…

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…is based in relationship with mother.

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Behaviorism & Psychoanalytic perspective…

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…both privilege feeding as cause for bond, but infants also bond with caregivers who don’t feed them.

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Bowlby’s Ethological Theory

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Ethological Theory of Attachment: the infants emotional tie to the caregiver is an evolved response that promotes survival

John Bowlby started this theory & believes that infants have any characteristics to keep parents close

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internal working model

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expectations about availability of attachment figures

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Bowlby: Pre-attachment

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0-6 weeks: gazing into parents’ eyes keeps adults close to newborns, for comfort

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Bowlby: Attachment-in-the-making

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6 weeks to 8 months: more reactions to caregiver, initial trust with caregiver

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Bowlby: Clear-cut attachment; separation anxiety

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8 to 18 months: child is bonded to parent & becomes upset when parent leaves

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Bowlby: Formation of reciprocal relationship

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18 to 24 months: Separation anxiety declines, child negotiates with parent around needs & separation

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The Strange Situation: Mary Ainsworth

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Parent & baby introduced to playroom, Parents sits while baby plays with toys, stranger enters & talks to parent, parents leaves & stranger offers comfort if baby is upset, parent returns greets baby offers comfort if necessary & stranger leaves, parent leaves, stranger enters offers comfort, parent returns greets baby offers comfort if necessary tries to reinterest baby in toys

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Mary Ainsworth’s Model

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Secure Attachment, Insecure-Avoidant Attachment, Insecure-Resistant Attachment, Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment

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Secure Attachment

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Parent is secure base, child may cry when separated because they prefer the parent to the researcher. Clear pleasure with caregiver return. 60% of USA middle SES families

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Insecure-Avoidant Attachment

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Unresponsive to parent when present, child not distressed when parent leaves. During reunion, they are slow to greet parent/avoid. 15% of USA middle SES families

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Insecure-Resistant Attachment

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Infants close to mother at beginning. Failure to explore the environment. Clingy & resistant when mom returns. 10% of USA middle SES families

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Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment

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Most insecurity. Infant is confused during reunion & shows disinterest, very little crying, looking away from parent. 15% of USA middle SES families.

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Implicit Awareness

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Baby from 0-4 months, child has some awareness that self is distinct from rest of world

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Explicit Awareness

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9-28 month babies are placed in front of a mirror & kids 18-20 months have awareness of their appearance (The Rouge Test)

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Self-Recognition

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Identification of self as a psychically unique being

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Scale Errors

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Toddlers are not aware of the size of their body & do things that are physically impossible

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Effortful Control

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Extent to which child will inhibit impulses, manage negative emotions, & behave in a socially acceptable way

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Compliance

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12-18 months, toddler shows interest in caregiver wishes & can obey simple requests & tasks

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Delay of Gratification

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18-48 months: child learns to wait for appropriate time to engage in tempting activities; controlled by caregiving

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Parental guidance helps the child…

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…develop self-control & safe behaviors. Children must be autonomous & think that they have control over their own actions.