Human Growth and Development / Unit 4 HGD 0474 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dyadic Regulation and Synchrony
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The idea
Emotion regulation is moving from high to lower arousal; infants depend on dyadic regulation, a caregiver holding, rocking, feeding or singing to them.
In practice
A parent and infant trading smiles and sounds in step, a pattern called synchrony.
Where people slip
Sensitive, responsive caregivers lower infants' negative emotion, and regulation shifts gradually from the caregiver to the child.
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