Lecture 9- Processing Affect 1 Flashcards
What does Darwin (1871) say about empathy
“Empathy has deep roots in the human psyche”
Empathy is the first
Emotional bridge between organism and environment
What was implicitly recognised by Bowlby and Ainsworth
Inter subjective basis of attachment
Infant sensory apparatus is highly receptive to
Stimuli arriving from social world
Empathic phenomenon is
The primary conveyor of information enabling child to directly grasp mood and attitudes of others
Parental brain is
Plastic post-partum
Dyad pre-equipped for
Co-ordinated interaction
Some level of contingency is likely to
Precede birth
Synchrony sets
Parameters across body and mind
What’s the input for development
Synchrony-> intimacy, trust, security-> coherence
Synchrony involves
Uncertainty- breaks and resets
Best functioning mother-infant dryads are in attuned states how much of the time
28-34%
Is emotional or physical unavailability more distressing to infants at 17 weeks of age
Emotional unavailability
Repair of mistakes in face-face interactions with infants occurs within
3-5 seconds
Latency to interactive repair related to
Infant cortisol reactivity
Timely reparation of mismatch aided
Infant recovery
Infant self-comforting positively related to
Cortisol reactivity
Sensitive re-attuning regulates
Physiology, builds resilience and trust
Maternal touch can lower
Infant’s heart rate during arousal
Co-regulation is critical in
Child-caregiver dyads given protracted development of neural system
Neocortical regions can alter
Limbic activity
Immaturity is likely to heighten
Children’s vulnerability to environmental influences
When presented with picture of mother was the amygdala reactivity higher or lower than a picture of a stranger
Lower
Children’s false alarm rate for fearful faces improved significantly when
Seated next to their mother
Children with what improved their false alarm rate for fearful faces the most
Children who showed the largest maternal buffering effects on the amygdala
Emotionally available parents have what effect on stress reactivity and shared affect
- Increase in shared affect
- Decrease in stress reactivity
Emotionally unavailable parents have what effect on stress reactivity and shared affect
- Increase on stress reactivity
- Decrease on shared affect
Emotionally unavailable parents cause what outcome with infants
- Infant dysregulation
- Infant disorganisation
Emotionally available parents cause what outcome with infants
- Infant inoculation
- Infant growth
Words come to symbolise
Experience
Understanding the meaning of words causes enactment and verbal communication of
Affective terms
Synchrony creates space for
Communication and is a life support system
What emerges out of the affective processes
Self
