Social-Emotional Bases of Pragmatic and Communication Development Flashcards
Types of joint attention
Responding to joint attention (RJA)
Initiating joint attention (IJA)
Initiatin behavioral requests (IBR)
RJA
Infant follows direction of gaze, head turn, and/or point gesture of another person
Emerges around 3 - 6 mos. of age
Primary Intersubjectivity
IJA
Infant uses eye contact and/or deictic gestures to spontaneously initiate coordinated attention with a social partner
Emerges around 6 – 9 mos. of age
Secondary Intersubjectivity
IBR
Infant uses eye contact and gestures to initiate attention coordination with another person to elicit aid in obtaining an object or event
Emerges around 9- 10 mos. of age
Secondary Intersubjectivity
Attachment styles
Secure, avoidant, resistant, disorganized-disoriented
Secure attachment
protests mother’s departure
Avoidant attachment
no distress of mother’s departure, willingness to explore
Resistant attachment
sadness on mother’s departure and on return and show anger on return
Disorganized-disoriented attachment
no clear strategy for responding to their caregivers
Impact of cultural variations in caregiver-child interactions
cultures differ in their child rearing practices
tend to differ in socializing children to become independent or inter-dependent
Vertical development
Communication skills become more complex with age & cognitive development
includes stages of intentionality (perlocutionary, illocutionary, locutionary) and development of referencing
Perlocutionary stage
0- 9 months
adult interprets meaning
Illocutionary stage
9 – 12 months
intentional communication behaviors
Locutionary stage
13 months and beyond
use of conventional symbols to make things happen
Horizontal development
Utterance level–>discourse level–>social level
