PSYC 20651 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Negative Affectivity, Mental Model
16 Mar 2019
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Individual differences in behavioral styles, emotions, and characteristic ways of responding: temperament classifications, chess and thomas" classification, kagan"s behavioral inhibition, rothbart and bates" classification, chess and thomas" classification. Identified three moderately stable temperament types (clusters): easy child (40%, difficult child (10%, slow-to-warm-up child (15%, kagan"s behavioral inhibition. Inhibition to the unfamiliar: tendency to react to aspects of unfamiliarity with initial avoidance, distress, or subdued affect, focuses on level of inhibition, extremely inhibited, extremely uninhibited. Intermediate: rothbart and bates" classification, characterize temperament based on three broad dimensions, extraversion/surgency, negative affectivity, effortful control. Goodness of fit and parenting: goodness of fit, the match between a child"s temperament and the environmental demands with which the child must cope, a lack of fit can produce problems. Inconsistent, unavailable, insensitive (abuse/neglect or unavailable mental or physical health concerns: measuring individual differences in attachment, observational, representational, story prompts, word prompt (script) Interviews: questionnaire, ainsworth"s strange situation, observational measure of infant attachment, securely attached.
