Midterm #2 - Ch.4 Socioemotional Development in Infancy Flashcards
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emotion
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- feeling/affect
- state or interaction important to a person
2
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early emotions at what age?
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- in the first 6 months
3
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primary emotions
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- surprise, interest, joy, anger, sadness, fear, disgust
4
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self-conscious emotions
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- develop later
- need self awareness
- jealousy, empathy, embarrassment, pride, guilt
5
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3 types of crying
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- basic
- anger
- pain
6
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basic cry
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- rhythmic pattern
- brief silence
- shorter higher pitched whistle
- could relate to hunger
7
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anger cry
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- variation of basic cry
- more excess air forced through vocal cords
8
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pain cry
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- sudden, long initial loud cry
- holding breath
- no preliminary moaning
- stimulated by physical pain or high intensity stimuli
9
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smiling
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- critical social skill and signal
10
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reflexive smile
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- not from external stimulus
- in first month
- can happen during sleep
11
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social smile
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- response to external stimulus
- happens at 2 months
12
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fear
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- one of the first emotions
- starts at 6 months and peaks at 18 months
- predisposition to threatening stimulus
- connected to stranger anxiety
13
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stranger anxiety
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- fear and wariness of strangers
- more intense at 9 months
- depends on social context and characteristics of the stranger
14
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social referencing
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- infants can read emotions of others
- how to act in a certain situation
- check with caregiver before acting
15
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separation protest
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- crying when caregiver leaves
16
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temperament
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- individual differences in behavioural styles, emotions, and characteristic ways of responding
- duration and intensity of emotions
17
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easy child
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- positive mood
- establish routines
- adapt easily
18
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difficult child
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- negative mood
- cries a lot
- irregular routines
19
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slow-to-warm-up child
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- low activity level
- somewhat negative mood
- low intensity mood
20
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Kagan’s concept of behavioural inbibition
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- differences between a shy, subdued, timid child, and a sociable, extroverted, bold child
- inhibition to the unfamiliar
21
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inhibition to the unfamiliar
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- react to aspects of unfamiliarity with initial avoidance, distress, or subdued affect
- around 7-9 months
- related to social phobia at 7 years
22
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high effortful control
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- ability to keep arousal from getting too intense
- have self soothing strategies
23
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low effortful control
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- unable to control arousal
- easily agitated
- become intensely emotional
24
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biological foundations (temperament)
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- can inherit a physiology that predisposes them to have a certain temperament
- brain structure
25
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experience (temperament)
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- children can learn to reduce fear and inhibition to a degree
26
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goodness of fit (parenting)
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- match between a child’s temperament and the environmental demands the child must cope with
27
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trust
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- trust vs mistrust in the first year (Erikson)
- infants face less secure world after birth
- need constant care to develop trust
28
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developing sense of self
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- being attentive and positive toward one’s image in a mirror as early as 3 months
- recognizing one’s physical features appears around 2 years
29
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independence
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- more central in second year (Erikson)
- autonomy vs shame and doubt
- autonomy builds as mental and motor abilities develop
30
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attachment - Freud
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- infants become attached to the person/object that gives them oral sensation
- usually mother
- not true
31
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attachment - Harlow
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- cloth vs wire mother for monkeys
- contact comfort
- feeding is not a crucial element in attachment
32
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attachment - Erikson
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- physical comfort and sensitive care are key to establishing a basic level of trust during infancy
- trust = foundation of attachment
33
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attachment - John Bowlby
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- importance of attachment in first year and responsiveness of caregiver
34
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4 phases of attachment - Bowlby
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- birth-2months: infants direct attachment to human figures, equally likely to elicit a reaction
- 2-7months: attachment focused on one figure, usually primary caregiver
- 7-24months: specific attachment develops, actively seeking contact
- 24 months on: children become aware of other people’s feelings, goals, and plans
35
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strange situation
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- observational measure of an infant’s attachment
36
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secure attachment
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- infants free to roam when caregiver is present
- mild protest when caregiver leaves
- reestablish positive reaction when caregiver returns
37
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insecure avoidant
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- avoid caregiver, not disturbed when they leave
- contact not reestablished when caregiver returns
38
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insecure resistant
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- cling to caregiver then resist closeness
- don’t explore when caregiver is present
- cry out when caregiver leaves, not reassured when they return
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insecure disorganized
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- disorganized and disoriented
- appear dazed, confused, and fearful
- patterns of avoidance and resistance, or extreme fearfulness around caregiver
40
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attachment _______ predicts adolescent _______ ________
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- insecurity
- social anxiety
41
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problems with attachment theory
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- doesn’t consider genes and temperament
- ignores diversity or socializing agents and contexts in the infants world
42
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secure caregiver
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- sensitive to child’s signals
- consistently available to respond to infant’s needs
43
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avoidant caregiver
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- little physical contact
- unavailable or rejecting
44
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resistant caregiver
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- inconsistent
- sometimes respond to needs
45
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disorganized caregiver
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- neglectful or abusive
46
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the family
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- a constellation of subsystems
- subsystems have reciprocal influences on each other
47
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reciprocal socialization
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- parent-child interaction is reciprocal/bidirectional
- children socialize their parents just as parents socialize their children
48
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higher quality childcare linked to ….
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- children’s better self-regulation of attention and emotion
49
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developmental cascades
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- connections among wide range of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes
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synchrony
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- coordination of social interaction with infants
51
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scaffolding
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- temporarily supports the infant’s needs and abilities for the purpose of helping them master a new task
