Social Comm. Dev. & Dis. Flashcards
Constructivist Theory
(Developmental Theory) Interaction with the world facilitates cognitive, social, and communicative learning and development. Cognitive dev. precedes lang. dev. and must hit certain cognitive states for lang. stages to develop.
Social Learning (Interaction) Theory
(Developmental Theory) When children are motivated to learn, they learn by observing and imitating others, and they expect similar outcomes for themselves following their imitation of others.
Transactional Model/Interaction Theory
Interaction is bi-directional, infant affects caregiver, and caregiver affects infant.
Resistant/Ambivalent Attachment
Take it or leave it. Reunite but are not easy to soothe. Vulnerable, anxious, sense of shame. Feeling of abandonment.
Avoidant Attachment
Refuses to reengage with mother. Won’t make eye contact, Child continues on as if the parents did not leave. Low affect attunement, verbal expression mismatched with facial expression.
Disorganized-disoriented
Freezing, resisting their departure. Not sure if should go to mom or not. Start that way then freeze. Hesitancy, avert gaze, rocking behavior. Sudden shifts in mental states.
(Adult) Secure-Autonomous
Coherent
(Adult) Dismissing
Brief, dismissing problems.
(Adult) Preoccupied
not coherent and long-winded. preoccupied with past and vague.
(Adult) Unresolved disorganized
lapse in reasoning/discourse. Long silences.
Fostering secure attachments-positive communication
To reflect the mental state of another, to emotionally engage. Both in words and nonverbal reflection of emotion states.
Intervention Focus-Communication
Sensitive and responsive to child signals. Aligned matching of experiences and states of mind. Amplifying positive affective states. Reduce negative affect states.
Thalamus
gateway for sensory information.
Thalamo-cortical circuit
mediation of consciousness.
Limbic System
Coordinates activity between higher-lower brain. Mediating emotion, motivation, goal-directed behavior. Meaning appraisal, social cognition, emotion regulation.
