Chapter 6: Emotional development and attachment relationships

Question 1

emotion

Answer 1

emotion ranges from simple emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear and anger, to more complex emotions such as self-consciousness and jealousy

Question 2

social referencing

Answer 2

infants and young children look to their caregiver for “advice” when faced with difficult/ uncertain situation and seek social cues (such as smiling/ frowning) to guide their actions

Question 3

visual cliff

Answer 3

piece of apparatus used to study depth perception in infant, consisting of a glass table with a checkboard pattern immediately beneath the glass on one half and on the floor below on the other side

Question 4

script

Answer 4

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

Question 5

emotional ambiguity

Answer 5

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

Question 6

false belief

Answer 6

incorrectly believing something to be the case when it is not; often used in theory of mind research

Question 7

mind-mindedness

Answer 7

caregivers who are able to read their infant’s signals appropriately; it is a good predictor of attachment security