HD 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: 18 Months, Social Preferences, Social Emotions

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HD 101
• Professor: Daylee Greene

Document Summary

In their first two years, infants progress from reactive pain and pleasure to complex patterns of social awareness, a movement from reflexive emotions to learned and then thoughtful ones. Social smile- a smile evoked by a human face, normally first evident in full-term infants about 6 weeks after birth. Separation anxiety- distress when a familiar caregiver or loved one leaves; most obvious between. 9 and 14 months: normal at age 1. Interferes with infant sleep: may be apparent outside the home. It is measured by the person"s typical responses to the environment. Preattachment newborns signal, via crying and body movements, that they need others. When people respond positively, the newborn is comforted and learns to seek more interaction. Newborns are also primed by brain patterns to recognize familiar voices and faces. Infants respond preferentially to familiar people by smiling, laughing, babbling. Their caregivers" voices, touch, expressions, and gestures are comforting, often overriding the infant"s impulse to cry.