Infant social development

Question 1

attachment

Answer 1

social bond with caregiver with sense of security

Question 2

harlow’s theory

Answer 2

contact comfort needed for infants, two monkeys one with just food and other with blanket, baby monkey was always with blanket monkey except when wanting food

Question 3

bowlby’s theory

Answer 3

emotional tie to caregiver is because of survival,secure base

Question 4

secure base

Answer 4

attachment figure that provided sense of security to explore,by bowlby

Question 5

developments of attachment

Answer 5

asocial phase (no preference), indiscriminate attachment (enjoys all people), specific attachment (just one person), multiple attachments (multiple figures)

Question 6

strange situation

Answer 6

created by Mary Ainsworth to see infants’ attachment styles, with cg and stranger and cg left to see how infant would react

Question 7

secure attachment

Answer 7

explores freely, upset when cg leaves but is soothed when they come back

Question 8

ambivalent

Answer 8

close to cg and doesn’t explore, upset when cg leaves but isn’t soothed when they come back

Question 9

avoidant

Answer 9

ignores cg when playing, isn’t bothered when they leave or come back

Question 10

disorganized attachment

Answer 10

between clingy or rejecting cg, when cg returns infant falls or freezes

Question 11

internal working model

Answer 11

attachment relationship informs child’s mental representation of self and others, influences feelings, worth, and interactions, secure remember positive events, insecure remember negative

Question 12

erikson’s trust vs mistrust

Answer 12

first stage of his theory, trust= meets needs, mistrust= doesn’t, key event = feeding

Question 13

temperament

Answer 13

innate characteristics of infant, including mood, reactivity, activity level

Question 14

easy temperament

Answer 14

positive mood, adaptable, predictable habits

Question 15

difficult temperament

Answer 15

negative mood, slow to adapt, unpredictable habits

Question 16

slow to warm up temperament

Answer 16

low activity level, slow to warm up to new things

Question 17

goodness of fit

Answer 17

cg and child’s style, communication, and interactions flow

Question 18

culture and personality

Answer 18

beliefs, customs, and traditions shape personality ( consistent patters of feelings, thinking, ad behavior)

Question 19

individualist cultures

Answer 19

independence, competition are important

Question 20

collectivist cultures

Answer 20

social harmony, group needs, goals, ideas pursed in group, achievements based on mutual support

Question 21

infant emotions

Answer 21

two emotional responses; attraction (comfort) and withdrawal (unpleasant)

Question 22

stranger wariness

Answer 22

awareness of strangers

Question 23

seperation anxiety

Answer 23

departure of others

Question 24

basic emotions (primary)

Answer 24

anger, happiness, sadness, fear, suprise

Question 25

self-conscious (secondary)

Answer 25

envy, pride, shame, doubt, guilt

Question 26

social referencing

Answer 26

looking at others to know how to respond

Question 27

emotional self-regulation

Answer 27

strategies to control emotional states to attain goals

Question 28

development of self

Answer 28

separate from cg

Question 29

self awareness

Answer 29

separate from others, infant understands, sympathy, guilt, shame, recognize themselves

Question 30

still face experiment

Answer 30

infant read their cg face as it was still and was doing everything to revert the cg expression, affects behavior