When students have studied the material in the
chapter, they will be able to answer the following: - Introduction
- What are some of the major developments in infancy that culminate in the formation of attachment relationships with caregivers?
- How are infants' growing social and emotional abilities related to changes
in their perceptual, motor, and cognitive abilities?
- What can parents and other caregivers do to provide the best possible environment for early social and emotional development?
- Developments in the first six months
- How do newborns' predispositions and caregivers' responses work together
to produce reciprocity in social interaction?
- What happens in the area of emotional development during the first six months of life?
- Development in the second six months
- How does emotional development continue in the second six months?
- Explain the hallmarks of attachment and the process of attachment formation.
- Explaining individual differences in early social and emotional development
- Describe the major patterns of attachment that have been identified, the patterns of caregiver behavior associated with each, and the influences they have on later development.
- Discuss the issue of stability and the role of biological factors with regard to temperament.
- How can the attachment framework and the temperament framework be reconciled
in explaining individual differences in infants' behavior?
- The importance of early care
- What evidence is there that early care is of special importance for healthy emotional development?
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