CAS PS 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: American Middle Class, Mental Model, Joint Attention
10 Jan 2017
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Attachment the strong and enduring emotional bond between a child and a significant other and the proesses that create and maintain this long-lasting social relationship. Components of attachment o attachment complex set behaviors and mental states that are responsible for setting up and maintaining attachment can vary across different species o smiling. Ex. oxytocin hormone production, producing increased feelings of trust and affection towards others o clinging and touching infants cling to caregivers when they are being held which forms and maintains proximity. 2 or 3 months after infants form first attachment. Early as present as right after birth as newborns follow the gazes of others. Mental representation of the self and others and how they might interact in different circumstances. Infants became progressively less likely to move about, locomotion of all forms like crawling diminished and the infants tended to sit in one place for many hours. o 2.
