Infant social development Flashcards
attachment
social bond with caregiver with sense of security
harlow’s theory
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
bowlby’s theory
emotional tie to caregiver is because of survival,secure base
secure base
attachment figure that provided sense of security to explore,by bowlby
developments of attachment
asocial phase (no preference), indiscriminate attachment (enjoys all people), specific attachment (just one person), multiple attachments (multiple figures)
strange situation
created by Mary Ainsworth to see infants’ attachment styles, with cg and stranger and cg left to see how infant would react
secure attachment
explores freely, upset when cg leaves but is soothed when they come back
ambivalent
close to cg and doesn’t explore, upset when cg leaves but isn’t soothed when they come back
avoidant
ignores cg when playing, isn’t bothered when they leave or come back
disorganized attachment
between clingy or rejecting cg, when cg returns infant falls or freezes
internal working model
attachment relationship informs child’s mental representation of self and others, influences feelings, worth, and interactions, secure remember positive events, insecure remember negative
erikson’s trust vs mistrust
first stage of his theory, trust= meets needs, mistrust= doesn’t, key event = feeding
temperament
innate characteristics of infant, including mood, reactivity, activity level
easy temperament
positive mood, adaptable, predictable habits
difficult temperament
negative mood, slow to adapt, unpredictable habits
slow to warm up temperament
low activity level, slow to warm up to new things
goodness of fit
cg and child’s style, communication, and interactions flow
culture and personality
beliefs, customs, and traditions shape personality ( consistent patters of feelings, thinking, ad behavior)
individualist cultures
independence, competition are important
collectivist cultures
social harmony, group needs, goals, ideas pursed in group, achievements based on mutual support
infant emotions
two emotional responses; attraction (comfort) and withdrawal (unpleasant)
stranger wariness
awareness of strangers
seperation anxiety
departure of others
basic emotions (primary)
anger, happiness, sadness, fear, suprise
self-conscious (secondary)
envy, pride, shame, doubt, guilt
social referencing
looking at others to know how to respond
emotional self-regulation
strategies to control emotional states to attain goals
development of self
separate from cg
self awareness
separate from others, infant understands, sympathy, guilt, shame, recognize themselves
still face experiment
infant read their cg face as it was still and was doing everything to revert the cg expression, affects behavior
