Introduction

Question 1

What are the modern infant theories?

Answer 1

1. infants are biologically wired to pay attention to their caregivers.
2. the entire social system includes a child.
3. early peer relations are important for development.

Question 2

What is the scrambled face paradigm?

Answer 2

4 conditions with scrambled or semi-scrambled face pictures: which ones does the baby follow. Infants follow the regular non-scrambled face. Infants are thus focused on other humans.

Question 3

What are the features of dyadic peer relations?

Answer 3

The features of dyadic peer relations include contingency and pro-social exchanges (sharing, responses to distress, and cooperating) and conflict.

Question 4

What are the underlying skills in social systems?

Answer 4

The underlying skills in social systems include joint attention, emotion regulation, inhibitory control, imitation, causal understanding, and language.