Early infant-mother interaction as a predictor of problem solving in toddlers
Tóm tắt
In a study of cognition-emotion parallels in early development, cognitive milestones were found to be relatively uniform in the first two years of life, while socio-emotional development showed a variety of profiles. In addition, individual socio-emotional profiles appeared to be related to the characteristic interactions infants had with their mothers prior to 4 months of age. While this in itself was perhaps not surprising, the variation we did observe in cognitive development appeared to be highly related to these individual socio-emotional differences and the caretaking histories they reflected. In fact, when our sample of children was in the second and third year of life, cognitive performance was better predicted by early socio-emotional histories than by measures of task performance abilities from the same period. These results, while not originally predicted, fit well with a model of development in which children’s orientation to the world, and their abilities to interact with it, are firmly rooted in the early adaptations they make to the caretaking environment.
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