PSYC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cotton Swab, Infant Joy, Missing Heart
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This study examined relations between infant stress regulation and parent responsiveness. Hypothesis: parents who responded more contingently to their infant"s social and emotional cues would. Infant stress and parent responsiveness: regulation of physiology and behavior during. Still-face and reunion have infants who show greater evidence of stress regulation. Stress reactivity is a response to a stressor and regulation is a recovery of a response following a stressor. The stress response involves multiple behavioral and physiological systems, which help the organism restore and maintain homeostasis when perturbed. The development and organization of stress-response systems may depend partly on the interactive behaviors of the caregiver. Infants employ different behavioral strategies to modulate excitement and arousal. Infants avert gaze when under- or over stimulated during face-to-face interactions. Gaze aversion has been shown to reduce autonomic arousal and negative affect. On the other hand, the infants" regulatory strategies, social cues, affect, and arousal are expressed as.
