Chapter 4 Flashcards
(13 cards)
Define attachment and be able to explain its importance.
The powerful bond of love between caregiver and child. It is our basic model for romantic love in adulthood.
Describe all four attachment styles as secure, insecure, avoidant, anxious-ambivalen, or disorganized.
Secure - Children use their mother as a secure base or anchor to confidently explore toys.
Insecurely - Deals with avoidant, anxious, and disorganized.
Avoidant - Shows no sign of separation anxiety & shows little feeling positive or negative.
Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment - Clingy, overly nervous, too frightened to freely explore toys.
Disorganized Attachment - Child freezes, runs around erratically, or may look frightened and try to flee when the caregiver returns.
What is the impact of poverty of young children?
- Score lower on an IQ test.
- Drop out of school more frequently.
- Tend not to attend preschool before starting schooling.
- Do not know as much as their peers when they get to school.
- Tend to be born in the low weight category.
- Appear to be more stressed than peers.
Defined by an intense attachment to caregivers & by urgent need to become independent.
Toddlerhood
The closest person in child or adult life.
Primary Attachment Figure
When a baby become wary of unfamiliar people & refuses to be held by anyone other than primary caregiver.
Stranger Anxiety
With a caregiver and infant responding emotionally to each each other in a sensitive, exquisitely attuned way.
Synchrony
A persons characteristics, inborn style of developing with the world.
Temperament
When toddlers confront the challenge of understanding that they are separate individuals.
Autonomy
Feelings of pride, shame, or guilt, which first emerge around age 2 and slow the capacity to reflect on the self.
Self-Conscious Emotions
The process by which children are taught to obey the norms of society and to behave in socially appropriate ways.
Socialization
An ineffective socialization strategy that involves yelling, screaming, or hitting out in frustration at a child.
Power Assertion
An ideal parenting strategy that involves arranging children’s environments to suit their temperaments, minimizing, them vulnerabilities & & accentuating their strengths.
Goodness of Fir
