Social Cognition
Evaluation of habituation tasks that emphasizes an infant's true cognitive abilities.
What is a rich interpretation?
Use of two or more languages.
What is multilingualism?
The key qualities of a positive attachment figure.
What are sensitivity and responsivity?
Category for emotions such as shame, guilt, and pride.
What are secondary/sociomoral emotions?
Ability to withstand or recover from challenges that threaten development.
What is resilience?
What is Theory of Mind?
The term referring to the social rules for using language.
What is pragmatics?
Term referring to how a positive attachment figure allows an infant to safely explore their environment while also providing comfort when needed.
What is a secure base?
Dimension of temperament that refers to social inhibition and difficulty.
What is negative affect?
Characteristics associated with a lower likelihood of negative outcomes.
What are protective factors?
Theory of social cognition proposing that infants possess a primitive understanding of other people and morality.
What is Core Knowledge Theory?
Infants' early ability to differentiate between different quantities of objects/shapes.
What is the Approximate Number System (ANS)?
Attachment style characterized by little distress when a caregiver leaves or returns.
What is insecure-avoidant?
Tendency to withdraw or become fearful in new situations.
What is behavioral inhibition?
Principle of DP regarding the importance of defining psychopathology in the context of expected development.
Paradigm used to investigate infants' understanding of other people's preferences.
What is the "Broccoli & Goldfish" task?
The study of abstract elements in the mind emerging from speech sounds.
What is phonology?
Term used to define relationships with mutual attention and affective matching.
What is dyadic synchrony?
Important study providing early evidence of social referencing behaviors in infancy.
What is the visual cliff?
Group of variables referring to the physical spaces and characteristics of a childcare setting.
What are structural variables?
Most advanced form of joint attention that refers to when an infant points or draws attention to an object.
What is initiating joint attention (IJA)?
A single word that can represent multiple sentences or ideas.
What is a holophrase?
Behavior characterized by indiscriminate friendliness towards many adult figures and a lack of awareness of social boundaries.
What is Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder (DSED)?
Phenomenon in which infants cry after hearing another infant cry.
What is emotional contagion?
Term that refers to how one program can indirectly impact other aspects of an individual's development or community.
What are cascading effects?