PSY 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dazed, Shyness, Naturalistic Observation

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 240
• Professor: Rebecca Gomez

Document Summary

Social and emotional development in infants and toddlers. 6. 2: temperament: temperament: refers to variations in behavior and emotions. Inhibitory control: ability to inhibit a dominant response and/or activate a subdominant response, to plan, and to detect errors. 6. 8: an example of gene-environment interaction: shyness: shyness- behavioral inhibition, the amygdala is involved in a series of cascading biological influences that end up affecting physiological responses such as heart rate, cortisol, and so on. 6. 3: attachment: attachment relationship: the reliance of the child on the mother is part of this, and it is one of the most widely studied phenomena in developmental science. Internal working model: the attachment experience in infancy set up expectations about the reliability, consistency, warmth, and effectiveness of the caregiver"s responses by 8 to. 12 months of age: strange situation: because naturalistic observation of attachment is time consuming,