PROCESSING AFFECT

Question 1

SUMMARY OF PROCESSING AFFECT

Answer 1

Processing demands come in when there is separation, this is when you become aware of yourself and thats when you have to repair

Question 2

WHAT IS AFFECT?

Answer 2

Process of experiencing feeling or emotion. It is a subjective term. It is the action between an agent and the environment. Foundation of life.

Question 3

INFANTS CANT NAME BUT…

Answer 3

They can sense environment. This is the bond between people and other things.

Question 4

Engagement is key for:

Answer 4

Emotional development and adaption.

Direct relationship with the self = direct relationship with the world.

Question 5

Synchrony is engagement. WHAT IS SYNCHRONY

Answer 5

Process coordinating exchanges of sensory, hormonal and physiological stimuli between parent and child.

Question 6

SYNCHRONY IS

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

JONES 2009

Answer 7

Infant is able to perfume motor acts to facilitate the synchrony with the caregiver. Early emergence of imitation of copying facial expressions.

Question 8

DECASPER AND SPENCE 1986

Answer 8

Response to maternal stimuli, children prefer mothers scent and voice. they adjust sucking rate to show preference.

Question 9

PARENTAL BRAIN POST PARTUM

Answer 9

Brain is plastic, adapting emotions and to a new family member. Areas of the brain affected is amygdala, ventral striatum and frontal cortex.

Question 10

WIDSTROMEN 2009

Answer 10

Touch of the mothers nipple in the first house of life increased time mothers kept infant with them by 100 mins a day.

Question 11

STRATHEARN 2008

Answer 11

Infants signals give rise to maternal dopaminergic reward related activity.

Question 12

WHAT IS THE STILL FACE PARADIGM?

Answer 12

Study of emotional separation. Emotional unavailability is more stressful than physical to a 17 week old baby.

Question 13

MURRAY 1998

Answer 13

Infants do not protest when interaction is separated by a stranger. they are aware it is natural interruption.

Question 14

WHAT DOES SYNCHRONY PROMOTE?

Answer 14

Synchrony promotes positive affect

Question 15

WHAT DOES DISRUPTION PROMOTE? 1

Answer 15

Disruption promotes negative affect. Separation leads to self-consciousness where we become aware of ourselves.

Question 16

WHAT DOES DISRUPTION PROMOTE? 2

Answer 16

Promotes arousal and unpleasantness. This requires repair in face to face interaction (3-5s). A mothers touch can lower heart rate in kids arousal.

Question 17

STUDY BETWEEN INFANT STRESS AND PARENT RESPONSIVENESS - HALEY AND STANSBURY 2003

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

COAN 2006

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

DOES MATERNAL STIMULI DECREASE AMYGDALA ACTIVITY?

Answer 19

fMRI shows lower amygdala responses when presented with own mothers image over a stranger. Lower response is correlated with strength of parent-child relationship.

Question 20

IF PARENT IS AVAILABLE:

Answer 20

Shared affect goes up, stress reactivity goes up. This leads to stress inoculation and growth.

Question 21

IF PARENTS ARENT AVAILABLE

Answer 21

Shared affect goes down and stress reactivity goes up. This leads to infant be dysregulated and disorganised.

Question 22

WHAT DOES SYNCHRONY CREATE OVER TIME?

Answer 22

Intimacy, trust and security. providing a foundation for more complex function.