Social Development (W18)

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  • Social Development
    • Attachment
      • Sucking: 1.Innate to    feed              2. Non-Nutritive to display distress
        • Cuddling: Proximity and affection for comfort
          • HARLOW
          • Looking: Eye contact and face to face interaction
            • TRONICK
        • AINSWORTH& PIAGET
        • Smiling: Indicator of genuine positive emotion
          • Crying: Cries vary in intensity to suggest distress (eg Pain, Fear, Hunger)
    • Separation Anxiety : fearful responses elicited by the infant when proximity is comprimised.
      • Stranger Anxiety: Anxious response when in close proximity with unfamiliar character. Reduced when safe base is near.
        • Strange Situation
          • Attachment Types
            • Secure
              • Social development indicator
            • Avoidant
            • Resistant
      • Strange Situation
        • Attachment Types
          • Secure
            • Social development indicator
          • Avoidant
          • Resistant
    • Disorders of social cognition
      • Autism (0-2yrs): social abnormality, language abnormality & repetitive behaviours.
        • Inability to reciprocate social and emotional interactions
        • Lack of ability to interpret social cues
        • Language development delay& common use of idiosyncratics
        • Early Signs; inability to maintain eye contact, to be intimate & attached
        • 4 times as common in boys as girls
        • Defective or lack of theory of mind
          • Defective T.O.M : Damage to left and right frontal lobes. Autism sees a reduction in frontal lobe size & activation.
            • Autism also sees a reduction of regular dopamine in the prefrontal cortex.
        • Aspergers - Autistic Psychpathy with obsessional and narrow range of interests.
          • ADHD: poor attention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity
    • Emotional Development
      • The left frontal region = responsiveness to positive emotion
        • The right frontal region = responsiveness to negative emotion.
          • reduced activation in left frontal cortex also associated with negative emotion
            • Distressed infants highlight similar asymettries
              • The right frontal region = responsiveness to negative emotion.
                • reduced activation in left frontal cortex also associated with negative emotion
                  • Distressed infants highlight similar asymettries
                    • Davidson and Fox (1989) Criers have greater right side activation
                • Davidson and Fox (1989) Criers have greater right side activation
          • Sexual Indentity
            • Kohlberg (children's ability to gender identify is largely attributed to masculinity & femininity of objects etc.
              • 1. (2-3.5yrs)   Gender Labelling. eg: dolls (f), cars (m)
              • 2. (3.5-4.5yrs) Gender Stability - their sex is constant and can be seen in physical characteristics
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