PSY 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Joint Attention, Ween, John Bowlby
Document Summary
Deaf parents use similar forms of communication with their infants. Autonomy vs shame and doubt: 1-3 years, parents provide suitable guidelines, over/under-controlling. Feeding is sole bases for attachment: psychoanalysis (freud/erickson, behaviorism (skinner/watson) Researcher says no: ethological perspective, attachment promotes survival. Built-in behaviors to keep parents nearby: protects from danger, ensures feeding. Built-in singles bring parents into close contact: attachment in the making. Respond differently to familiar caregiver than to a stranger. True attachment: 6-18 months, babies display separation anxiety. Reciprocal relationshop: 18 months on, separation protest declines, language leads to better communication. Measure of attachments: the strange situation , secure attachment. Seek contact when return: avoidant detachment. React to parent and stranger in the same way. Don"t seek contact upon return: resistant attachment. Angry/resistive behavior upon return: disorganized/disoriented attachment. Darwin and evolution of emotion: early behaviors predicting aggression, evolution of threat displays, evolution of submissive displays. Happiness: social smile, promotes infant-caregiver bonding.
