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CHAPTER 6 Socioemotional Development in Infancy Lecture prepared by: Dr. M. Sawhney
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Where we are going… Emotional and Personality Development Emotional Development Temperament Personality Development Social Orientation/Understanding and Attachment Social Orientation Attachment
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Emotional & Personality Development What are Emotions? Positive Emotions Negative Emotions What influences Emotions? Biological Foundations Person’s Experience
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Emotions Kinds of Emotions Primary Emotions vs Self Conscious Emotions Jealousy in infants? https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=rExDgS2l1fc
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Emotional Expressions in Infants Fear, Disgust, Anger, Sadness, Happiness, Surprise
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How did you do? Fear Disgust Anger Sadness Happiness Surprise
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Emotional Expression Crying Basic cry Anger cry Panic cry http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=0Rc8PZEoqUA Smiling Reflexive smiling Social smiling
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Fear Develops around 6 months and peaks at about 18months Less fearful of strangers Familiar environment If the baby is given time to “warm up” to the stranger Separation Protest: Begins at 7-8 month and peaks at 15 month
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Temperament Temperament involves individual differences in behavioral styles, emotions and characteristic way of responding has biological foundations refers to individual differences is modifiable by environment
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Temperament Types Chess & Thomas’s Temperament Type Easy babies Difficult babies Slow-to-warm-up-babies Kagan’s Behavioral Inhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=CGjO1KwltOw Rothbart & Bates Temperament Types Extravesion/surgency Negative affectivity Effortful control
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Goodness of fit (Thomas & Chess, 1977) Match between a child’s temperament and the environmental demands with which the child must cope Well matched pair Less well-matched pair
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Personality Development Erikson’s Trust vs. Mistrust Erikson’s Autonomy vs. Shame Developing sense of self http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=M2I0kwSua44
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Social Orientation/Understanding Social orientation Face-to-face play Social referencing: Infants’ social sophistication and insight http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=h_UHkFUzHQA
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Attachment What is attachment? Can you think of 2 people you are attached to and reflect why that relationship involves attachment?
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Harlow’s Experiment (1959) Aim: To find out whether feeding or contact comfort was more important to infant attachment. Participants: Eight newborn rhesus monkey separated from their mothers immediately after birth Result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= _O60TYAIgC4
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Bowlby’s Attachment Theory: Proposed that both infants and parents are biologically predisposed to form attachments Phases of Attachment Phase 1: Non focused orienting & signaling Phase 2: Focus on one or more figures Phase3: Development of specific attachment Phase 4: Become aware of others’ feelings
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Quality of Attachment Strange Situation (Ainsworth, 1979) Parent & Child Alone Child plays with parent in the room Stranger enters room, starts to interact with parent & then with child Parent leaves the room, child & stranger are alone in the room Parent returns and comforts the child http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s608077Nt NI
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Types of Attachment Securely attached babies Insecure avoidant babies Insecure resistant babies Insecure disorganized babies
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Cultural differences in attachment German babies show avoidant attachment Japanese babies show resistant attachment Secure attachment is seen in every culture
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Social Context Influence on Infant Development Transition to parenthood Reciprocal socialization Managing Infant’s Behavior Child Care
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Managing & Correcting Undesirable Behavior
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Interpreting Differences in Attachment Does early attachment predict child’s social behavior in later development. Developmental cascade model: Involves connections across domains over time that influence developmental pathways and outcomes
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Developmental Social Neuroscience and Attachment Important role in maternal attachment behavior Role of hormones and neurotransmitters
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Name that Attachment Relationship! A baby in this group might say “I missed you terribly, but now that you’re back, I’m okay.” A baby in this group might say “You left me again. I always have to take care of myself.” Secure Insecure/Avoidant
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Name that Attachment Relationship! A baby in this group might say “Why do you do this? I get so angry when you’re like this.” A baby in this group might say “What’s going on here? I want you to be here, but you left and now you’re back. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.” Disorganized Resistant
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