I appreciate weekly blogs, because I see them as a good way of studying. Summarizing the chapter requires conceptual thinking rather than just memorizing the material. We have to sift through it, and summarize for ourselves, and put it in terms that we understand.
In chapter seven, they discusses how the development of social attachments and interactions with parents occur. Brain maturation supports social emotion. Children learn emotions from both the mother and father. According to Berger, when a baby is socialized with the father's emotions, they handle anger better in adolescence and teen years, compared to kids who don't have dad's interaction (p.199). The mother teaches the infant expression, and the baby imitates the mother's face, or memorizes the emotion. The mother responds to the baby by performing the still-face technique. "Mothers instinctively synchronize their responses to the motion of the baby" (Berger, 194). Seeing the response of the mother when the baby makes a reaction, the interaction is known synchrony. As the cortex matures, the development of emotions such as fear, self-awareness, and anger occur. Babies learn emotion from who they are exposed to, sequence of nuerons fire together and become closely and quickly connected to the brain (Bergler, 182). Memory is strengthened at age one, because there are more axon and dendrite connections to allow for memories to be made. The hypothalamus, which is responsible for hormone production and regulating bodily functions, grows more slowly if the infant is stressed.
In chapter seven, they discusses how the development of social attachments and interactions with parents occur. Brain maturation supports social emotion. Children learn emotions from both the mother and father. According to Berger, when a baby is socialized with the father's emotions, they handle anger better in adolescence and teen years, compared to kids who don't have dad's interaction (p.199). The mother teaches the infant expression, and the baby imitates the mother's face, or memorizes the emotion. The mother responds to the baby by performing the still-face technique. "Mothers instinctively synchronize their responses to the motion of the baby" (Berger, 194). Seeing the response of the mother when the baby makes a reaction, the interaction is known synchrony. As the cortex matures, the development of emotions such as fear, self-awareness, and anger occur. Babies learn emotion from who they are exposed to, sequence of nuerons fire together and become closely and quickly connected to the brain (Bergler, 182). Memory is strengthened at age one, because there are more axon and dendrite connections to allow for memories to be made. The hypothalamus, which is responsible for hormone production and regulating bodily functions, grows more slowly if the infant is stressed.
Attachment was developed by a British developmentalist John Bowdly, but expanded by Mary Ainsworth. Attachment, the emotional bond between a mother and baby, through physical contact, expression and verbal reassurance, begin at age one. There are four types of responses and they include secure attachment, insecure-avoidant attachment, insecure-resistant/ambivalent attachment and disorganized attachment. The infant, adult relationship carries through out person's life, into their own platonic or romantic relationships. Proximity-seeking and contact-maintaining is a survival technique to keep kin close. The discussion post this week touched on attachment styles, and I think now, reading the section of social attachments, and I see that its fascinating that children can grow out from a secure attachment, if living conditions become stressful later in childhood. That was my interpretation of secure attachment, it's there, only if childhood continues to be promising in a stable, environment, free of stress
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