Date of Award
8-1998
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Cordelia Robinson
Second Advisor
Deana Finkler
Third Advisor
Ross Thompson
Abstract
The infant enters the world with certain abilities that allow him or her to interact with the environment. Early on infants demonstrate a preference in viewing the human face (Fantz, 1968) and selectively responding to the sounds of human speech (Eimas, Sigueland, Jusczyk, & Vigorito, 1971). The early development of perceptual sensitivities enable the infant to become a partner in the social environment. It has been suggested that the ability to engage in social interactions provides the infant with the structure to organize cognitive and affective experiences (Stern, Beebe, Jaffe, & Bennett, 1977). Through the interaction process the infant first learns such aspects of functioning as the rules governing conversational turn taking (Bateson, 1975; Schaffer, Coll is & Parsons, 1977), attachment to the caregiver (Ainsworth, Bell, & Slayton, 1974; Blehar, Lieberman, & Ainsworth, 1977), problem solving and sociability (Matas, Arend, & Sroufe, 1978; Pastor, 1981), and curiosity and ego control (Arend, Gove, & Sroufe, 1979).
Recommended Citation
Basel, Karol, "A comparison of relation-breaking behaviors, relation-maintaining behaviors, and maternal sensitivity in population of handicapped and non-handicapped infants" (1998). Student Work. 196.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/196
Comments
A Thesis Presented to the Department of Psychology and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts University of Nebraska at Omaha.