our social nature

Question 1

social-ness of human nature

Answer 1

evolved for small group living

those who possessed attributes conducive to social interaction and group living

Question 2

our need to belong

Answer 2

fundamental powerful and perverse drive to form and maintain at least a min number of lasting positive and significant interpersonal attachments

Question 3

face perceptual system

Answer 3

attended to and reason to faces of other humans

prefacers for face like objects

second order relational information
-primary caregiver and facial preferences
-other race effect

Question 4

empathy accuracy

Answer 4

cues decode meaning infer and other persons thoughts or feelings

Question 5

interpersonal sensitivity

Answer 5

reading another person and responding to cues

Question 6

preferences for positive engagement

Answer 6

open eyes (36 hours)
discriminate between emotions (7 months)
use of own facial expression (10 months)
still-faced effect (2.5 years)

Question 7

language

Answer 7

born with capacity to acquire and use language

Question 8

universal grammar

Answer 8

preexisting knowledge of the structure of language (Chomsky)

speech over sound: hight amplitude sucking procedure

humans speech over vowel sounds and tapping sounds: observed infant body movement

then socialized to particular language or multiple languages

Question 9

the attachment system

Answer 9

innate and adaptive propensity of human beings to make strong affectional bonds to particular others

often activated in times of needs

Question 10

infants cry, suck, smile, mono reflex/cling, follow

Answer 10

manifest as attachment behaviors
-promote physical proximity to attachment figures

Question 11

caregiver actions are important

Answer 11

activates the caregiving system

sensitivity, responsibility, and consistency in response guide a baby’s attachment to a caregiver

Question 12

attachment patters

Answer 12

secure (s)
avoidant (a)
anxious-ambivalent(resistance): clingy (r)

Question 13

attachment behaviors

Answer 13

proximity seeking
-high (s and r) low (a)
contact maintenance
-high (s and r) low (a)
secure base
-yes can explore (s)
-no caregiver like a stanger (a)
-no does not explore (r)
under distress
-seek caregiver, comfort, expect return (s)
-avoid caregiver not even really upset when they leave (a)
-distress hight when they leave not easily comforted (r)
hit or miss parenting

Question 14

what influences attachment: quality of caregiving

Answer 14

sensitive, responsive, consistent
especially in times of need?
internatinoal synchrony?

Question 15

what influences attachment: parents internal working models

Answer 15

the way one views his/her own history of caregiving experiences

Question 16

what influences attachment: infant characteristics

Answer 16

temperament disability

Question 17

what influences attachment: family circumstances

Answer 17

stressors and support alter emotional climate

Question 18

what influences attachment

Answer 18

opportunity for attachment