PSY311H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Joint Attention, Dysfunctional Family, Visual Impairment
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To regularize the infant"s basic biological processes and to: developmental task: harmonize them with parental requirements. Parent brings in own ideas how to regulate child others may take a laisez faire approach, on the other end adapt to parents current lifestyle. Characterized by basic functions such as crying, smiling but not a reactive smile: face to face exchanges (2 months) to regulate mutual attention and responsiveness in face to, developmental task: face situations. Childs ability to discriminate between two different individuals important because able to develop a relationship even if have visual impairment can rely on other senses. Debate about an innate disposition ie. eye tracking implying inborn mechanism. A full face required in order to trigger a smile. Cycles of attention and non-attention (which we all have it). Important that parents regulate and synchronize their stimulation with the child. Parents can control their own attention and stimulation.
