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PROMPT: For this week's Learning Activity please watch the first 35 minutes of this film titled "This Emotional Life"
THEN......read pages 97-106
from the textbook and/or review some of the powerpoint and instructor lecture
notes before you begin the assignment! textbook ==== http://dept.clcillinois.edu/psy/LifespanDevelopment.pdf
PROMPT: (Essay Assignment)
Questions you might include from video in
your essay: "This Emotional Life":
This Emotional Life: Watch First 35
Minutes (Links to an external site.)
source ===https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-M0d9xsVwc
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This
Emotional Life
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This
Emotional Life
In
the mid-1900s, Freud introduced concepts to describe the emotional life of
infants as they develop, including the "primary object" (the first
person who made a significant impression), the "primary source of
pleasure" (the first person who was comforting and safe), the
"primary aggressor" (the first person who was destructive and
unsafe), and the "primary internal object" (the first person one was
emotionally attached to). Infants have an emotional life, though not that
adults or most other animals consciously access. Their emotions are primarily
based on their attachment relationships with caregivers, most often mothers.
Infants
often play with their mother and their father and others who are their
attachment figures. In the mother's case, this usually means that the infant
plays with the breast, or is carried in the arms of the mother, or otherwise
supported as she plays. It also means that the infant can directly see her
mother's emotional state. When the mother is happy, the infant is happy; when
the mother is sad, the infant is sad, and so forth.
Mothers,
or other exceptionally responsive caregivers, tend to feel more positive
emotions toward their infants and be more responsive when their infants are
distressed. Some infants are more needy and clingy than others, which is
associated with different mothering styles during pregnancy. Nadia and
Alexander were born within a month and were raised in the same home. As
infants, they were both cared for by the same mother. While Nadia was often
fussy, Alex was very active. She was also always sleeping well. So maybe her
mother had to be more involved with Nadia to help her stay asleep or calm her.
The nurse practitioner showed her mom how to do a “swaddle” wrap instead of a
blanket so that the baby would always be warm, comfortable, and safe. They
talked about how the baby needed to sleep at different times.
Alex serves as an example of how lack of attachment in early life significantly shapes the ability to build future relationships. The documentary is a case presented in the McCormick family who adopts Alex from the orphanage. Alex was neglected and was...
