Wk. 2 - Infancy and Early Childhood - Ch. 4 - Socioemotional Development in Infancy

Question 1

emotion

Answer 1

Feeling or affect that occurs when a person is in a state or interaction that is important to them. Emotion is characterized by behavior that reflects (expresses) the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the state a person is or the transactions being experienced.

Question 2

basic cry

Answer 2

A rhythmic pattern usually consisting of a cry, a briefer silence. a shorter inspiratory whistle that is higher-pitched than the main cry and a brief rest before the next cry.

Question 3

anger cry

Answer 3

A cry similar to the basic cry with more excess air forced through the vocal cords.

Question 4

pain cry

Answer 4

A sudden outburst of loud crying without preliminary moaning, followed by breath holding.

Question 5

reflexive smile

Answer 5

A smile that does not occur in response to external stimuli. It appears during the first month after birth, usually during sleep.

Question 6

social smile

Answer 6

A smile in response to an external stimulus which early in development, typically is a face.

Question 7

stranger anxiety

Answer 7

An infant’s fear and wariness of strangers that typically appears in the second half of the first year of life.

Question 8

separation protest

Answer 8

An infant’s distressed crying when the caregiver leaves.

Question 9

temperament

Answer 9

An individual’s behavioral style and characteristic way of responding emotionally.

Question 10

easy child

Answer 10

A child who is generally in a positive mood, who quickly establishes regular routines in infancy, and who adapts easily to new experiences.

Question 11

difficult child

Answer 11

A child who tends to react negatively and cry frequently who engages in irregular daily routines, and who is slow to accept new experiences.

Question 12

slow-to-warm-up child

Answer 12

A child who has a low activity level, in somewhat negative, and displays a low intensity of mood.

Question 13

attachment

Answer 13

A close emotional bond between two people.

Question 14

stranger situation

Answer 14

An observational measure of an infant attachment that requires to move through a series of introductions, separations, and reunions with the caregiver and an adult stranger in a prescribed order.

Question 15

securely attached babies

Answer 15

Babies that use the caregiver as a secure base from which to explore their environment.

Question 16

insecure avoidant babies

Answer 16

Babies that show insecurity by avoiding their mothers.

Question 17

insecure resistant babies

Answer 17

Babies that often cling to the caregiver. then resist her by fighting against the closeness, perhaps by kicking or pushing away.

Question 18

insecure disorganized babies

Answer 18

Babies that show insecurity by being disorganized and disoriented.

Question 19

reciprical socialization

Answer 19

Socialization that is bidirectional, meaning that children socialize parents, just as parents socialize children.

Question 20

scaffolding

Answer 20

Process in which parents time interactions so that infants experience turn-taking with their parents.