Assess whether intrinsic factors or the quality of interaction
between human caregivers and children lead to successful learning outcomes.
Developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth devised a procedure, called The Strange Situation, to observe attachment relationships
between a human caregiver and child.
Not exact matches
Infant - directed speech (IDS) is a more melodic and emotionally - charged kind of speech that adults have evolved to enhance communication
between human babies and their
caregivers.
Attunement processes
between humans are particularly described for early interactions
between infants and their
caregivers.
As pets get older, the bond
between them and their
human caregivers grows stronger.
The complex nature of
human attachment and social interaction with
caregivers might be one domain in which direct parallels with the animal literature are limited, potentially related to the fact that the attachment relationship
between children and
caregivers is a necessary scaffold for development of numerous uniquely
human capacities, including emotion regulation and language (49, 50).
In
humans, both the HPA system and the autonomic nervous system show developmental changes in infancy, with the HPA axis becoming organized
between 2 and 6 months of age and the autonomic nervous system demonstrating relative stability by 6 to 12 months of age.63 The HPA axis in particular has been shown to be highly responsive to child -
caregiver interactions, with sensitive caregiving programming the HPA axis to become an effective physiological regulator of stress and insensitive caregiving promoting hyperreactive or hyporeactive HPA systems.17 Several animal models as well as
human studies also support the connection
between caregiver experiences in early postnatal life and alterations of autonomic nervous system balance.63 - 65 Furthermore, children who have a history of sensitive caregiving are more likely to demonstrate optimal affective and behavioral strategies for coping with stress.66, 67 Therefore, children with histories of supportive, sensitive caregiving in early development may be better able to self - regulate their physiological, affective, and behavioral responses to environmental stressors and, consequently, less likely to manifest disturbed HPA and autonomic reactivity that put them at risk for stress - related illnesses such as asthma.
And, having repeatedly misrepresented research on infant - mother (I use «mother» here synonymously with mother - substitute or primary
caregiver) attachment, as «parents» and «
caregivers,» implying that they are all equal (Lamb's own research has found otherwise), and making the completely misleading statement that «most infants» are attached to «both parents» this ostensibly indicates... that children suffer separation issues from all kinds of
human beings, that there is no particular qualitative differences
between one of the «attachment figures» or another, that separation from one is like separation from another, and that all of this separation stress is ameliorated if the child simply is left with another fungible «attachment figure» aka here «the other parent.»