WAGER
Attachment
The Brain
Cues
Miscellaneous
100
Showing interest in children, being friendly and responsive
What is Warmth?
100
Mutual affection and a positive connection between an infant and a special adult
What is Attachment?
100
Certain times when the specific circuits in the brain are more "ripe and ready" to receive stimulation
What is the Optimal Period?
100
The degree or intensity of emotional behavior and the timing and duration of a person's response.
What is temperament?
100
When an infant alternates between regular and irregular sleep.
What is Periodic Sleep?
200
The act of recognizing and understanding another person's perspective even when that perspective is different than yours
What is Empathy?
200
The person who provides consistent, responsive care
What is the person to whom the child first becomes attached?
200
When babies are able to respond to the social environment, particularly human faces, voices and touch.
What is Perception?
200
When harmonious relationships occur between infants and caregivers
What is Sensitive Caregiving?
200
The means by which personal identity is developed.
What is Individuation?
300
to value the child unconditionally
What is Acceptance?
300
When an adult fulfills a baby's needs for food, protection, comfort and security.
What is Sensitive Caregiving?
300
Through continual stimulation of their senses in the early years.
What is how babies learn?
300
Pick up the child and hold him or her to the shoulder.
What is a very effective strategy for soothing a crying child?
300
The process that includes one's capacity to cooperate in a group, to regulate one's behavior according to society and to get along with others.
What is Socialization?
400
Believing that children are capable of learning and acting competently for their age
What is Respect?
400
To provide a safe context within which infants explore, learn and practice self-regulation.
What is the function of attachment?
400
The sense that is well-developed before birth
What is Hearing?
400
Swaddle, Side or Stomach, Swing or Sway, Shush and Sucking
What are the Five S's?
400
When an infant has difficulty in adjusting to new situations.
What is Fearful Distress?
500
Being real with children
What is Genuiness?
500
The adult who meets the needs of the baby and is available and responsive to the baby's cues
What is the primary caregiver?
500
Physical contact with a caregiver, communication and play that engages all the senses.
What is what all babies need?
500
Moving their bodies.
What is how infants reveal their needs for engagement (or not)?
500
The degree to which teh adult temperament fits the temperament of the infant.
What is Goodness of Fit?