PSYC23H3 Lecture 7: LECTURE 7.docx
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London taxi study: change specific parts of the brain to do specific tasks: huge ocean sea change to hormones during pregnancy. Parent cortisol inconsistent: more cortisol after u give birth how much cortisol in ur system predictshow much parenting u do. Cortisol can make parents like the smell of their child with more cortisol plus more sympathy to child when child cries with more than stable cortisol. Postnatal: how much cortisol in their feces had no significance. Specific types of parent beh: parents are trying to get the kids attention to interact and engage. Prototypical parent-infant interaction profiles: dyad a: kid gets upset and doesn"t engage and tries to connect again with them, they became nice. Maternal cortisol: measure cortisol in the saliva. If the kid is more happier the parent is more responsive, alot more attention-eliciting but less than when kid is low in attention affect.
