HDF 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Twin

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Human Development and Family Sciences
• Course: HDF 351
• Professor: N Hazen- Swann

Document Summary

Attachments specific, enduring, emotional bonds whose existence is of major importance in the social and personality development; infant"s fist social relationships, often with parents. Collectivist the group tends t be valued over the individual and thus there is an emphasis on the interconnectedness of the members of the community. Dizygotic twins born from different eggs fertilized by different sperm. Epigenesis the hypothesis that new phenomena not present in the original fertilized egg can emerge over the course of development through the interaction of preexisting element with environmental influences. Extradyadic interactions in which the parent encourages the child to examine some property, object or event in the environment. Individualistic cultures tend to value independence of the self more. Israeli kibbutzim community that practices communal childbearing. Material caregiving involved the manner in which parents structure infants" physical environments (provision of toys and books and restrictions on physical freedoms) Monozygotic twins born from the same egg and fertilized by a single sperm.