Lecture 9- Processing Affect 1

Question 1

What does Darwin (1871) say about empathy

Answer 1

“Empathy has deep roots in the human psyche”

Question 2

Empathy is the first

Answer 2

Emotional bridge between organism and environment

Question 3

What was implicitly recognised by Bowlby and Ainsworth

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Inter subjective basis of attachment

Question 4

Infant sensory apparatus is highly receptive to

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Stimuli arriving from social world

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Empathic phenomenon is

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The primary conveyor of information enabling child to directly grasp mood and attitudes of others

Question 6

Parental brain is

Answer 6

Plastic post-partum

Question 7

Dyad pre-equipped for

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Co-ordinated interaction

Question 8

Some level of contingency is likely to

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Precede birth

Question 9

Synchrony sets

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Parameters across body and mind

Question 10

What’s the input for development

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Synchrony-> intimacy, trust, security-> coherence

Question 11

Synchrony involves

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Uncertainty- breaks and resets

Question 12

Best functioning mother-infant dryads are in attuned states how much of the time

Answer 12

28-34%

Question 13

Is emotional or physical unavailability more distressing to infants at 17 weeks of age

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Emotional unavailability

Question 14

Repair of mistakes in face-face interactions with infants occurs within

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3-5 seconds

Question 15

Latency to interactive repair related to

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Infant cortisol reactivity

Question 16

Timely reparation of mismatch aided

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Infant recovery

Question 17

Infant self-comforting positively related to

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Cortisol reactivity

Question 18

Sensitive re-attuning regulates

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Physiology, builds resilience and trust

Question 19

Maternal touch can lower

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Infant’s heart rate during arousal

Question 20

Co-regulation is critical in

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Child-caregiver dyads given protracted development of neural system

Question 21

Neocortical regions can alter

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Limbic activity

Question 22

Immaturity is likely to heighten

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Children’s vulnerability to environmental influences

Question 23

When presented with picture of mother was the amygdala reactivity higher or lower than a picture of a stranger

Answer 23

Lower

Question 24

Children’s false alarm rate for fearful faces improved significantly when

Answer 24

Seated next to their mother

Question 25

Children with what improved their false alarm rate for fearful faces the most

Answer 25

Children who showed the largest maternal buffering effects on the amygdala

Question 26

Emotionally available parents have what effect on stress reactivity and shared affect

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• Increase in shared affect

- Decrease in stress reactivity

Question 27

Emotionally unavailable parents have what effect on stress reactivity and shared affect

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• Increase on stress reactivity

- Decrease on shared affect

Question 28

Emotionally unavailable parents cause what outcome with infants

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• Infant dysregulation

- Infant disorganisation

Question 29

Emotionally available parents cause what outcome with infants

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• Infant inoculation

- Infant growth

Question 30

Words come to symbolise

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Experience

Question 31

Understanding the meaning of words causes enactment and verbal communication of

Answer 31

Affective terms

Question 32

Synchrony creates space for

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Communication and is a life support system

Question 33

What emerges out of the affective processes

Answer 33

Self