PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Hypothalamus, Attachment In Adults, Cortisol
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in the first months the task is to achieve stability in functioning. with neurological development and repeated interactions, the child learns during the first year to inhibit certain expressions and soothe the self. at the end of the first year, attachment to close, emotionally available caregiver becomes the central issue. 72% maintained their style of secure versus insecure attachment. Both initial attachment and continuity in both conventional and non conventional were similar: 57 children from backgrounds of poverty with high developmental risk. Temperament: temperament has a large heritable component, it is an aspect of behaviour that is constitutional, stable over time and situations, and it has a neuropsychological basis. Biases of emotion at the core of temperament: joseph campos argued that emotion is at the core of temperament. Associated with elevated activation of the reticular activating system, which regulates arousal levels: extraverts are generally under-aroused.
