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Module 13
Psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social Smile | Smiling elicited by social stimuli, such as seeing a parent's face |
| Affectional Needs | Emotional needs for love and affection |
| Emotional Attachments | Especially close emotional bonds that infants form with their parents, caregivers, or others |
| Social Development | The development of self-awareness, attachment to parents or caregivers, and relationships with other children and adults |
| Surrogate Mother | A substitute mother |
| Contact Comfort | A pleasant and reassuring feeling human and animal infants get from touching or clinging to something soft and warm, usually their mother |
| Separation Anxiety | Distress Displayed by infants when they are separated from their parents or principal caregivers |
| Secure Attachment | A stable and positive emotional bond |
| Insecure-Avoidant Attachment | An anxious emotional bond marked by a tendency to avoid reunion with a parent or caregiver |
| Insecure-Ambivalent Attachment | An anxious emotional bond marked by both a desire to be with a parent or caregiver and some resistance to being reunited |
| Parental Styles | Identifiable patterns of parental caretaking and interaction with children |
| Authoritarian Parents | Parents who enforce rigid rules and demand strict obedience to authority |
| Power Assertion | The use of physical punishment or coercion to enforce child discipline |
| Withdrawal of Love | Withholding affection to enforce child discipline |
| Self-Esteem | Regarding oneself as a worthwhile person; a positive evaluation of oneself |
| Overly Permissive Parents | Parents who give little guidance, allow too much freedom, or do not require the child to take responsibility |
| Authoritative Parents | Parents who supply firm and consistent guidance combined with love and affection |
| Management Techniques | Combining praise, recognition, approval, rules, and reasoning to enforce child discipline |
| Maternal Influences | The aggregate of all psychological effects mothers have on their children |
| Paternal Influences | The aggregate of all psychological effects fathers have on their children |