An infant’s fear and wariness of strangers
- tends to appear in the 2nd half of the 1st year of life (6 months)
- at 9 months fear of strangers is more intense
Form of communication be it verbal, written or signed, based on a system of symbols
One of 4 differences in attachment when the main caregiver is present, child may roam and act normally. When child notices the caregiver has left, they may cry and protest. When caregiver returns, they go back to playing normally because they are in a safe presence of their safety caregiver; How would you label this child's attachment?
A threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.
When a parent/teacher adjusts the level of guidance in an activity with a child according to their level of performance or understanding
Knowing that an object still exists, even if it is hidden. It requires the ability to form a mental representation (i.e. a schema) of the object. Occurs during Piaget's sensorimotor stage.
Piaget's stage in which Infants gain knowledge of the world from the physical actions they perform within it. They progress from reflexive, instinctual action at birth to the beginning of symbolic thought toward the end of the stage
A scale that scores newborns at 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth to assess stability
Parent and child attending to the same object/stimulus with the child modeling the same emotional response as the parent is what kind of attention?
During the first year of life, the infant develops
an ability to inhibit, or minimize, the intensity, and duration of emotional reactions.
The two-week period after conception is called the ______ stage.
Infant emotional development between primary emotions and self conscious emotions
Piaget's theory of actions or mental representations that organize knowledge; one of the 6 concepts of infant cognitive process
Different lengths in interaction and absence between a parent and infant causing different levels of security and emotions in the child