Chapter 6- Attachment & Emotional Development Flashcards
Emotional Development:
What are the primary emotions? When do they appear?
8pts
- Distress, interest, disgust- birth
- Pleasure/joy (social smile) - around 3 months
- Sadness & Anger - around 4 months
- Fear- around 7- 8 months
What are the secondary emotions, specifically self conscious emotions? When does it occur?
4pts
- embarrassment, empathy, jealousy
- middle of 2nd year
What are the secondary emotions, specifically self conscious evaluative emotions? When does it occur?
4pts
- guilt, shame, pride
- Between 2nd and 3rd years
Social relationships: Attachment
What are 5 things that determine an attachment/how do we know we are attached to someone?
5pts
- Seek to be near attachment figure
- Show pleasure in company of attachment figure
- Protest when attachment figure leaves
- Express joy/relief when reunited
- Use attachment figure as “secure base” to explore
What is an attachment? What are 3 characteristics?
4pts
- Close emotional relationship between infant and caregiver through childhood and adolescence
- Selective
- Mutual affection
- Desire to maintain proximity
In the ethological approach, what are the two major observations?
2pts
Two major observations:
1. Human infants are helpless at birth
2. Humans produce few offspring
In the opinion of Konrad Lorenz, what is the “cute” appearance of infant (kewpie doll)/what are the characteristics?
4pts
- big head
- protruding forehead
- small nose
- small chin
What draws us to help babies and think they are cute? Why?
2pts
- Lorenz believed this was done for their survival, when they are cute they appear helpless and we feel the need to help them.
- These physical characteristics in a baby tend to draw us to help babies
Establishment of attachment of mother to infant.
What concept is this?
Bonding
What did Klaus and Kennel believe about bonding (3pts) ? What were the results (2pts)?
- sensitive period 6-12 hours after birth
-skin-to-skin contact during few hours after birth
-animals reject infant removed and then returned
Results after skin-to-skin contact:
-mothers more physically affectionate with babies
-effects on hospitals (babies used to be kept in separate rooms, now they are kept with the mothers)
What behaviours were recorded/were they looking to observe in the strange situation experiment?
5pts
- use of mother as base to explore
- Stranger anxiety
- Separation anxiety
- willingness to be comforted by stranger
- ** quality of greeting when mother returns: some were excited some were not excited and were upset with mother and would hit them
In a securely attached attachment style what happens when mother is in the room?
How do they react to stranger, who is the base for exploration, what do they do?
5pts
- explore actively
- play comfortably
- react positively to stranger
- use mothers as a base for exploration- go back to mom for cuddles/hang onto leg/interaction
- emotionally “in tune” with mothers (if mom is happy, baby is happy)
In a securely attached attachment style what happens when mother leaves? What happens when stranger comes?
2pts
- reduced play, signs of distress
- will not be comforted by stranger
In a securely attached attachment style what happens when mother returns ?
3pts
- active greeting
- seeks contact and interaction
- contact terminates distress, promotes return to play
In a insecure-avoidant attachment style what happens when mother is in the room?
How do they react to stranger, who is the base for exploration, what do they do
3pts
- do not use mother as base to explore- don’t go back to check in with mother
- will play with toys, do not check back with mother for emotional support
- behave similarly with mother and stranger (avoid both)