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| true social interactions involving mutual exchanges between partners |
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| caregivers' adjustment of the stimulation they provide in response to signs from the infant |
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| a caregiving style in which the caregiver attends to the infant's needs and responds to them promptly and effectively |
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| a form of visual master in which the infant recognizes a familar stimulus and assimilates it to an established scheme |
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| a state of feeling that arises when a person evaluates and even in a particular way |
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| negative reactions of infants to strangers |
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| an enduring emotional tie between infant and caregiver |
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| negative reactions of infants when the caregiver temporarily leaves |
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| postitive reactions of infants when the caregiver appears |
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| behavior in which the infant uses the caregiver as a base for exploration |
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| the parent's initial emotional tie to the newborn |
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| a pattern of attachment in which the infant is confident of the caregiver's availability and responsiveness and can use the caregiver as a secure base for exploration |
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| patterns of attachment in which the infant is not confident of the caregiver's availability and responsiveness and cannot use the caregiver as a secure base for exploration |
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| anxious-resistant attachment |
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| an attachment pattern in which the infant separates from the caregiver reluctantly but shows ambivalence toward the caregiver after a brief separation |
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| anxious-avoidance attachment |
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| an attachment pattern in which the infant readily separates from the caregiver but avoids contact after a brief separation |
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| disorganized-disoriented attachment |
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| a type of anxious attachment in which the infant shows contradictory features of several patterns of anxious attachment or appears dazed and disoriented |
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| an infant's generalized expectations about the social world, including caregiver responsiveness, the infant's own ability to obtain care, and the nature of social relationships |
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| an individual infant's general style of behavior across contexts |
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| sensitive period hypothesis |
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| the idea tat certain kinds of experience are especially important at particular points in development |
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