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
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early emotions at what age?

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  • in the first 6 months
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primary emotions

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  • surprise, interest, joy, anger, sadness, fear, disgust
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self-conscious emotions

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  • develop later
  • need self awareness
  • jealousy, empathy, embarrassment, pride, guilt
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5
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3 types of crying

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  • basic
  • anger
  • pain
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6
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basic cry

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  • rhythmic pattern
  • brief silence
  • shorter higher pitched whistle
  • could relate to hunger
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anger cry

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  • variation of basic cry
  • more excess air forced through vocal cords
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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
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smiling

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  • critical social skill and signal
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reflexive smile

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  • not from external stimulus
  • in first month
  • can happen during sleep
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social smile

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  • response to external stimulus
  • happens at 2 months
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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
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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
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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
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15
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separation protest

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  • crying when caregiver leaves
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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
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easy child

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  • positive mood
  • establish routines
  • adapt easily
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difficult child

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  • negative mood
  • cries a lot
  • irregular routines
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slow-to-warm-up child

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  • low activity level
  • somewhat negative mood
  • low intensity mood
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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
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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
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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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  1. birth-2months: infants direct attachment to human figures, equally likely to elicit a reaction
  2. 2-7months: attachment focused on one figure, usually primary caregiver
  3. 7-24months: specific attachment develops, actively seeking contact
  4. 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
39
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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
50
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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