The Infant Separates Himself from His Mother

Rheingold, Harriet L.; Eckerman, Carol O.

doi:10.1126/science.168.3927.78

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“…Mothers and fathers, as attachment figures, may foster the infant's social, personality, and cognitive development by providing the infant with a secure base from which to explore the social and physical environment (e.g. Ainsworth and Bell, 1970, 1914, Anderson, 1974Ley and Koepke, 1975;Rheingold and Eckerman, 1970). In addition, as my research indicates, parents interact with their infants in qualitatively different fashions; importantly, their behavior is consistent with cultural assumptions regarding role-appropriate behaviors for mothers and fathers and males and females.…”

Section: The Breadth O F the Infant Social Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Re-Examination of the Infant Social World

Lamb¹

1977

Human Development

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Social developmentalists have traditionally viewed infants as passive recipients of social stimulation, limited to significant relationships only with their mothers. Recent evidence suggests that this notion is incorrect on both counts. Infants are shown to be active participants in their interactions with other persons. Furthermore, infants have, or are capable of, relationships with fathers, siblings, and peers. Other examples of social sophistication are discussed. It is concluded that progress in the understanding of socioper-sonality development will be achieved only when the competence of infants and the multi-dimensionality of the infant social world are acknowledged.

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Section: The Breadth O F the Infant Social Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Re-Examination of the Infant Social World

Lamb¹

1977

Human Development

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“…Contrary to this notion, the study of animal social behavior (Bischof 1972a(Bischof , 1972b(Bischof , 1975a, as well as experience with human children (Rheingold & Eckerman 1970), seems to indicate that the control system in question is in fact bidirectional. The appetence for security, that is, may tum negative and become equivalent to what Craig (1918) proposed to call an "aversion."…”

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A Systems Approach toward the Functional Connections of Attachment and Fear

Bischof¹

1975

Child Development

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DEVELOPMENT, 1975, 46, 801-817. Proceeding from J. Bowlby's attachment theory and W. A. Mason's arousal theory, a control model is developed that is capable of accounting for basic processes of mammalian social behavior. In particuW, the model simulates the transition from a state of attachment to familiar conspecifics and fear of strangers to a stage of detachment from the familiar and exploration of the stranger. Seme of the model's predictions were tested in animal experiments and proved to be in satisfactory correspondence with the behavior actoally observe

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“…The relative unfamiliarity of the situation, and the distress felt or expressed by some of the infants, may affect the infants' behavior in a way that changes its meaning. It has long been known that separations imposed on infants affect them more negatively than their own voluntary ventures away from their caregivers [Rheingold & Eckerman, 1970]. This is not to say that the paradigm proposed by Selby and Bradley is without merit; but it is not the only possible way of exploring infants' social capabilities.…”

Section: Equality Of Social Partnersmentioning

confidence: 97%