PROCESSING AFFECT Flashcards
SUMMARY OF PROCESSING AFFECT
Processing demands come in when there is separation, this is when you become aware of yourself and thats when you have to repair
WHAT IS AFFECT?
Process of experiencing feeling or emotion. It is a subjective term. It is the action between an agent and the environment. Foundation of life.
INFANTS CANT NAME BUT…
They can sense environment. This is the bond between people and other things.
Engagement is key for:
Emotional development and adaption.
Direct relationship with the self = direct relationship with the world.
Synchrony is engagement. WHAT IS SYNCHRONY
Process coordinating exchanges of sensory, hormonal and physiological stimuli between parent and child.
SYNCHRONY IS
Biologically supported = womb = sleep wake cycle. As soon as the infant is born it is more complex, moving from biological to non verbal to verbal.
Caregiver and infant are pre-equipped for rhythmic interaction.
JONES 2009
Infant is able to perfume motor acts to facilitate the synchrony with the caregiver. Early emergence of imitation of copying facial expressions.
DECASPER AND SPENCE 1986
Response to maternal stimuli, children prefer mothers scent and voice. they adjust sucking rate to show preference.
PARENTAL BRAIN POST PARTUM
Brain is plastic, adapting emotions and to a new family member. Areas of the brain affected is amygdala, ventral striatum and frontal cortex.
WIDSTROMEN 2009
Touch of the mothers nipple in the first house of life increased time mothers kept infant with them by 100 mins a day.
STRATHEARN 2008
Infants signals give rise to maternal dopaminergic reward related activity.
WHAT IS THE STILL FACE PARADIGM?
Study of emotional separation. Emotional unavailability is more stressful than physical to a 17 week old baby.
MURRAY 1998
Infants do not protest when interaction is separated by a stranger. they are aware it is natural interruption.
WHAT DOES SYNCHRONY PROMOTE?
Synchrony promotes positive affect
WHAT DOES DISRUPTION PROMOTE? 1
Disruption promotes negative affect. Separation leads to self-consciousness where we become aware of ourselves.
WHAT DOES DISRUPTION PROMOTE? 2
Promotes arousal and unpleasantness. This requires repair in face to face interaction (3-5s). A mothers touch can lower heart rate in kids arousal.
STUDY BETWEEN INFANT STRESS AND PARENT RESPONSIVENESS - HALEY AND STANSBURY 2003
Infants of responsive parents spend more time looking at parents than less.
Show more regulation of negative affect and can re-engage more effectively. Less responsive parents children are avoidant during re-union.
COAN 2006
Stress was reduced for married women when they encountered a stressful situation when holding their husbands hand in comparison to when they weren’t holding hand.
DOES MATERNAL STIMULI DECREASE AMYGDALA ACTIVITY?
fMRI shows lower amygdala responses when presented with own mothers image over a stranger. Lower response is correlated with strength of parent-child relationship.
IF PARENT IS AVAILABLE:
Shared affect goes up, stress reactivity goes up. This leads to stress inoculation and growth.
IF PARENTS ARENT AVAILABLE
Shared affect goes down and stress reactivity goes up. This leads to infant be dysregulated and disorganised.
WHAT DOES SYNCHRONY CREATE OVER TIME?
Intimacy, trust and security. providing a foundation for more complex function.
