Attachment
What motivates an infant to seek a relationship or bond with parents/caregivers.
The attachment system
A term coined by Daniel Siegel, the ability to see the internal world of self and others.
Mindsight
The intergenerational transmission of ideas, beliefs, values, rituals, and ideas.
Culture
Developing the capacity to manage powerful emotions and maintain focused attention.
Self-regulation
Memory that does not require consciousness or focal attention during encoding or retrieval (ie: emotions, bodily functions)
Implicit memory
When children have consistent and emotionally attuned bonds with their parent/caregiver.
Secure attachment
Inner awareness that is not measurable. The internal mental experience, your personal sense of knowing.
Subjective experience
Societies that place greater emphasis on independence, individual achievement and self-fulfillment.
European-American
A syndrome of excessive, uncontrollable crying seen in some infants who're 6 to 8 weeks old.
Colic
The encoding, storage, and retrieval of a sense of self as experienced in one specific episode of time.
Episodic memory
When a child adapts to avoiding closeness and emotional connection to parents/caregivers.
Avoidant attachment
Consciousness
Societies that emphasize responsibilities to others, and personal achievement as contribution to collective goals.
Asian, African, Latin American
True or false: young children can have emotion-related disorders like adults: depression, anxiety, and anger problems.
True
Holding something at the front of your mind for a moment of time, like a phone number.
Working memory (short-term memory)
When children experience inconsistent availability and unreliable communication.
Ambivalent/resistant attachment
Paying attention, on purpose, to present experience as it emerges moment by moment, without judgement.
Mindfulness
A person who is able to facilitate mutually rewarding interactions and meaningful relationships for families whose cultural heritage is different from their own.
Cultural Competency
When infants take cues from the reassuring or anxious expression of a caregiver.
Social referencing
The inability to remember a time before the age of 2 or 3.
Childhood amnesia
When a child's needs are unmet and the parent's behavior is a source of disorientation or terror.
Disorganized attachment
Swirls of energy that have symbolic meaning.
Information
Everyday "scripts" or activities like sleeping, feeding, and playing that are passed down through the family.
Behavioral inheritances
A theory that focuses on children's developing frameworks for inferring what other people are thinking or feeling and making predictions on how they will respond.
Theory of mind
When you can only recall a memory when you are in the state of mind you were in when you learned about it or had the experience.
State dependent