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Lifespan Ch6 WK4
Question | Answer |
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Emotion: | feeling, or affect, that occurs when a person is in a state or an interaction that is important to him or her, especially to his or her well-being |
Biological and Environmental Influences: | emotional capacities with age; Development of certain brain regions (plays a role in emotions); Emotions first language w/parent & infant communication; Social relationships set development of some emotions |
reciprocal | (synchronous) Positive interactions |
Four types of cries | Hunger (rhythmic cry) Anger (air is forced thru vocal chords) Pain (sudden onset, LOUD!) Frustration (moaning 1st 2-3 drawn out cries) |
Two types of smiling | Reflexive smile: up to 2 months old, sleeping Social smile: after 2 months old |
one of a baby’s earliest emotions | Fear: @ 6 months; peaks @18 months |
Stranger Anxiety | fear and wariness of strangers; Emerges gradually, first @ 6 months; Intensifies @9 months; escalating past 1st bday; Peaks @ 15 months |
Swaddling | snugly wrapping a baby in a blanket |
emotional regulation | Self-soothing Self-distraction Language (2nd year) |
Temperament | an individual’s behavioral style and characteristic way of responding |
3 temperments of NYSL | Easy (40% of kids) Slow to Warm Up (15% of kids) Difficult (10% of kids) Irritable, hard to please Intense emotional responses Irregular biologic function |
Easy (40% of kids) | Generally happy; Responds well to change; Rhythmic & regular biologic function |
Slow to Warm Up (15% of kids) | Generally mild distress reactions Hesitant about new experiences |
Difficult (10% of kids) | Irritable, hard to please; Intense emotional responses; Irregular biologic function |
Kagan (Temperment) | children inherit a physiology that biases them to have a particular type of temperament, but this is somewhat modifiable through experience |
Biological Influences of temperment | Physiological characteristics have been linked with different temperaments; Heredity has a moderate influence on temperament differences |
Gender Influences of temperment | Parents may react differently to an infant’s temperament depending on gender Mothers are more responsive to girls |
Goodness of Fit | Adjustment is easiest when the child’s temperament matches the situation (mostly mother’ style, but culture & setting too) |
Goodness of Fit Application | Application: Recognition that your kid acts a certain way because of temperament & NOT willfulness leads to more positive reactions. |
Personality development-Three central characteristics | Trust: Erikson believed the 1st year is characterized by trust vs. mistrust Development of a sense of self Occurs at approximately 12 months Independence through separation and individuation |
Self-concept | our image of ourselves |
Personal agency | ‘I can make that move!’ |
Self-efficacy | ‘I’m GREAT at making it move!' |
Self-awareness | Knowledge of the self as a distinct being Rouge test (fully in-tact by 24 months) |
Erikson’s Trust vs. Mistrust | Newborns and infants develop a sense of reliability of people and objects; Basic Trust |
Erikson’s Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt | 18 months – 3 years old = autonomy (kid can walk, can move about where he wants to go) Shame can arise if the child is predominantly reprimanded/ criticized for being “bad”. This requires self-consciousness & awareness of social norms |
Application of Erikson's Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt | Parental patience to let the kid do it himself Avoid being overprotective Avoid criticism |
Face-to-face play | begins to characterize interactions at 2 to 3 months of age |
Still-Face & Post-Partum Depression | Mother becomes stony face Child stops smiling and looking at mother Child tries to comfort self After still-face baby is joyous, but demanding Over time baby can become depressed |
Social Referencing | “reading” ambiguous emotional cues in others to determine how to act in a particular situation Emerges by the end of the 1st year; improves during the 2nd year |
Attachment | Reciprocal and enduring, close, emotional bond between child and caregiver |
Theories of Attachment: | Freud: infants become attached to the person that provides oral satisfaction (food giver) Harlow: contact comfort preferred over food; Erikson: trust arises from reliable comfort and sensitive care Bowlby: newborns are biologically equipped (innate) to |
Secure Babies | Cries when mom leaves Happy when she returns Play freely when mother is near |
Avoidant | Little interaction with caregiver, not distressed when she leaves, avoid her on return. Don’t reach out. Little exploration |
Resistant/Ambivalent | Anxious B4 mom leaves, angry at return Hovers around her but resists soothing, kicks mom when she returns. Little exploration. Wants to be soothed and refuses soothing. |
Disorganized | No uniform strategy. Seeks stranger, not mom. No eye contact. Often seen in autism or orphanage.Confused & afraid by stress. |
Long-Term Effects of Secure Attachment | More independence Open to change better peer relations More positive emotions More resilient More curiosity and self-confidence Better conflict resolution skills Higher levels of adult intimacy |
The Family: | Family is a constellation of subsystems Each subsystem has a reciprocal influence on the other Adjustment of parents during infant’s first years |
Reciprocal socialization | two-way interaction process whereby parents socialize children and children socialize parents |
Scaffolding | parental behavior that supports children’s efforts through turn-taking sequences |