Child Concentration And Stress | What Can It Tell Us About Human Development?
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Child psychologist and neuroscientist Sam Wass joins the podcast today to discuss the early human development of attention and stress. What makes Sam's research unique is the way he analyzes not one – but two people at once. He does this to explore the interpersonal properties that exist between parents and their children.
Sam is a Professor of Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of East London's School of Psychology. Here, he heads up the BabyDevLab and the Developmental Group. What has his psychological and neurological work uncovered? Tune in now to find out!
In this episode, we talk about:
- Why children are considered to be less emotionally stable early on.
- How parents and children coregulate physiological stress.
- How children learn from adults.
- How to calm down children's stress levels.
To learn more about Sam and his work, click here now!
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | We've done a few projects with this, but they've all just been with their mothers. |
| 0:02.8 | Just simply because, you know, about 8% of our caregivers are mothers, you know, |
| 0:06.7 | by birth and their babies about 12 months, which we need a lot of our babies to be. |
| 0:10.2 | A lot of them, most of the dads have gone back to work so it's much harder so practically. |
| 0:13.6 | There is some research with dads in the context of kind of sharing of good emotions. |
| 0:18.0 | And this is something I think about a lot, this idea that there was one lovely paper about, |
| 0:21.7 | how you have your kind of, you have more, on average, you have more of your kind of intermediate |
| 0:26.0 | and a mood states with your mum. And then you have more kind of intense bursts of high positive |
| 0:30.7 | affect with your dad. And I definitely do that with my kids. I get home at a 5.30 in the evening |
| 0:35.4 | and then we have like a bout of, you know, half an hour of really, really energetic play. |
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| 1:21.2 | Foundation. I have a professor, Sam Was. He's a professor of early years neuroscience |
| 1:26.1 | at the UEL Baby Development Lab. This is at the University of East London. |
| 1:30.4 | So we have talked about parental neuronal responsivity to infants, visual attention, |
| 1:35.6 | but the interaction between parents and children and other topics that Sam will be covering. |
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