Social Referencing In Childhoods
15. How is social referencing important to infancy?
Social referencing is the act of looking for ways to react to an unknown stimulus or event by seeing others expressions and reactions. An infant will likely use a family member to gage how to react in social situations. It is particularly interesting that a baby will become accustomed to new foods because their parents emoted and showed they enjoyed the foods. (p.147,148)
16. How does father involvement affect infants?
It is important to note that a father can become an even greater source for emotional and social attachment than the mother. A father involved in a baby’s life can influence him in many ways. A child may be less likely to be difficult when their father has provided love and …show more content…
In this right, a parent that encourages a child at every step may create a child that is happy and kind. Behaviorists also claim children develop from social learning, or learning from other people. (p.151)
21. Why does “working model” arise from cognitive theory instead of from the other theories?
The cognitive theory claims that values and thoughts decide an individual’s perspective in life. The working model revolves around assumptions that become a guidebook for later life. The reason this model is a part of the cognitive theory is because it involves the thoughts made to determine values. (p.153)
22. According to humanism, how might caregivers’ needs affect their response to an infant?
Humanists believe that parents have needs that determine the way they will nurture their child. The book talks about a caregiver not receiving the care she needed as an infant, influencing the way she nurtures. Although a child may need some form of nourishing milk to survive, a mother may need to wean the child to feel relief in her breasts. (p.154)
23. How does evolution explain the parent-child …show more content…
According to page 156, it would be next to impossible for a mother to have more than two children without help from others. If this happened, the human species would not be able to survive. (p.156)
25. What are the advantages and disadvantages of nonmaternal infant care?
Some disadvantages include a child not getting the attention he craves. A baby may receive an advantage by getting the basic needs he or she needs. This ensures that a child is benefiting developmentally from a person that is not his mother. (p.158)
26. Compare costs and benefits of infant care by relatives versus center day care.
It is true that day care of any kind can be beneficial for each child. This provides a method of education and care. Center day care can be much more expensive but may provide a community for enrichment of learning. On the other hand, relatives are much less costly and can be familiar faces that the child already knows. (p.160)
27. Why is it difficult to draw conclusions about infant day care?
There are many reasons for the need and circumstances for infant day care. We can’t be certain about these tests because the development of a child is not just about their day care experience. A child may not be difficult just because of how long they were in day care, but instead because of their quality of home life.
Social referencing is the act of looking for ways to react to an unknown stimulus or event by seeing others expressions and reactions. An infant will likely use a family member to gage how to react in social situations. It is particularly interesting that a baby will become accustomed to new foods because their parents emoted and showed they enjoyed the foods. (p.147,148)
16. How does father involvement affect infants?
It is important to note that a father can become an even greater source for emotional and social attachment than the mother. A father involved in a baby’s life can influence him in many ways. A child may be less likely to be difficult when their father has provided love and …show more content…
In this right, a parent that encourages a child at every step may create a child that is happy and kind. Behaviorists also claim children develop from social learning, or learning from other people. (p.151)
21. Why does “working model” arise from cognitive theory instead of from the other theories?
The cognitive theory claims that values and thoughts decide an individual’s perspective in life. The working model revolves around assumptions that become a guidebook for later life. The reason this model is a part of the cognitive theory is because it involves the thoughts made to determine values. (p.153)
22. According to humanism, how might caregivers’ needs affect their response to an infant?
Humanists believe that parents have needs that determine the way they will nurture their child. The book talks about a caregiver not receiving the care she needed as an infant, influencing the way she nurtures. Although a child may need some form of nourishing milk to survive, a mother may need to wean the child to feel relief in her breasts. (p.154)
23. How does evolution explain the parent-child …show more content…
According to page 156, it would be next to impossible for a mother to have more than two children without help from others. If this happened, the human species would not be able to survive. (p.156)
25. What are the advantages and disadvantages of nonmaternal infant care?
Some disadvantages include a child not getting the attention he craves. A baby may receive an advantage by getting the basic needs he or she needs. This ensures that a child is benefiting developmentally from a person that is not his mother. (p.158)
26. Compare costs and benefits of infant care by relatives versus center day care.
It is true that day care of any kind can be beneficial for each child. This provides a method of education and care. Center day care can be much more expensive but may provide a community for enrichment of learning. On the other hand, relatives are much less costly and can be familiar faces that the child already knows. (p.160)
27. Why is it difficult to draw conclusions about infant day care?
There are many reasons for the need and circumstances for infant day care. We can’t be certain about these tests because the development of a child is not just about their day care experience. A child may not be difficult just because of how long they were in day care, but instead because of their quality of home life.