C&a Psychology

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Emotion

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The body's physiological reaction to a situation, the cognitive interpretation of the situation, communication to another person, and actions.

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Emotional Schemas

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All the associations and interpretations that an individual connects to a certain emotion.

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Social Referencing

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Using the reaction of others to determine how to react in ambiguous situations.

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Easy Temperament

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Marked by positive mood, easy adaptation to change, and regularity and predictability in patterns of eating, sleeping, and elimination.

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Difficult Temperament

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Marked by a more negative mood, intense responses, slow adaptation to change, and irregular patterns or eating, sleeping, and elimination.

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Slow-to-Warm Temperament

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Marked by a slow adaption to new experiences and moderate irregularity in eating, sleeping, and elimination.

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Attachment

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An emotional bond to a particular person.

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John Bowbly Beliefs

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Instinctive need to be attached to something.

Preattachment (joint attachment)

Attachment in the Making (stranger anxiety)

Clear-Cut Attachment (separation anxiety)

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Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation

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Measures levels of anxiety in infants around mother and strangers.

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Empathy

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Sharing the feelings of other people.

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Goodness of Fit

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How well a child's temperamental characteristics match the demands of the child's environment.

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Visual Perspective Taking

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The understanding that other people can see an object from a point of view that is different from one's own.

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Secure Attachment

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A strong, positive emotional bond with a person who provides comfort and a sense of security.

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Drive Reduction

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The idea that human behavior is determined by the motivation to satisfy or reduce the discomfort caused by biological needs or drives.

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Secure Base for Exploration

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The use of a parent to provide the security that an infant can rely on as she explores the environment.

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Preattachment

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The stage of development of attachment from birth to 6 weeks, in which infant sensors preferences bring infants into close connection with parents.

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Attachment in the Making

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The stage from 6-8 months in which infants develop stranger anxiety, differentiating those they know from those they don't.

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Clear-Cut Attachment

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The stage from 8-18 months when an infant develops separation anxiety when a person he is attached to leaves him.

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Goal-Oriented Partnership

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The stage of development of attachment from 18 months on, when toddlers create reciprocal relationships with their mothers.

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Joint Attachment

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A process in which an individual looks at the same object that someone else is looking at, but also looks at the person to make sure that they are both involved with the same thing.

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Stranger Anxiety

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Fearfulness that infants develop at about 6 month toward people they do not know.

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Separation Anxiety

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Distress felt when separated from a parent.

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Internal Working Model

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A mental representation of particular attachment relationships a child has experienced that shapes expectations for future relationships.

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Strange Situation

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Mart Ainsworth's experimental procedure designed to assess security of attachment in infants.

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Anxious Avoidant Attachment

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An attachment class-action in which the infant is not distressed when his mother leaves, is as comfortable with the stranger as with his mother, and does not rush to greet his mother when she returns.

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Anxious Ambivalent/Resistant Attachment

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An attachment class-action in which the infant is reluctant to move away from his mother to explore and is very distressed when she leaves, but when she returns, he approaches her bit also angrily resists her attempt to pick him up.

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Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment

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An attachment class-action in which behavior is unpredictable and odd and show no coherent was of dealing with attachment issues, often linked with parental abuse or neglect.

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Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)

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A disorder marked bt an inability to form attachments to caregivers.

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Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

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An attachment disorder in which children approach strangers indiscriminately, not differentiating between attachment figures and other people.

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Nuclear Family

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A family consisting of a husband, a wife, and their biological and/or adopted children.

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Stepfamilies

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Families in which there are tow adults and at least one child from a precious relationship of one of the adults, there also may be biological children of the couple.

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Open Adoptions

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Adoptions in which the children and their biological and adoptive families have access to each other.

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Foster Care

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The temporary placement of children in a family that is not their own because of unhealthy situations within their birth family.