I need a 50 word reply to each student response

ORIGINAL
QUESTION:

Attachment

A. Imagine that you are a psychology professional
working with first-time parents. One parent says, “Should I just let my baby
cry so that he does not get spoiled?” Based on the course materials,
discuss the importance of the development of a secure attachment in infancy,
addressing the following issue:

• How
  might the failure to develop a secure attachment affect a child later in
  life?
• What
  parental/caregiver behaviors can help facilitate the development of a
  healthy and secure attachment in children? Try to provide an original
  suggestion, one that is unique, and different from what your peers have
  already provided.

B. According to Piaget, the infant is in the
sensorimotor stage of development. David is a 9-month-old infant who can crawl
and stand up holding onto something. He can purposefully crawl toward a ball to
roll it. He can find objects that are hidden, and he knows how to get his mother
or father to come to him when he cries.

• Has
  David completed the sensorimotor stage? Why, or why not? What behaviors
  would you expect to see next in David?

STUDENT
1 RESPONSE:

Developing a secure attachment with your child is
something that should be considered as important as remembering to bring them
home from the hospital.  Attachment is “the strong emotional bond
that emerges between infant and caregivers.” (Bukatko, 2008, p.247) 
Secure attachments bring about strong cognitive, social and emotional
development throughout infancy and childhood.

There are two primary schools of thought on the secure
attachment bond, learning theory or the ethological view.  Both theories
give way to the importance of securing an attachment.  Harlow’s experiment
with the monkeys, showed that the security of a physical object that soothed
the monkey was greater in securing an attachment than the act of feeding or
providing for the monkey.  In the ethological view, the bond is forged by the
infant giving signals and the caregiver response will affect the securement of
the attachment.

Failure to secure those attachments in infancy could
potentially cause the child to grow with attachment issues such as fear of
caregivers, lack of trust and poor socialization skills.

The clearest way to secure a healthy attachment
between the infant and caregiver would be simply responding to the infant’s
needs consistently and appropriately.  This signals to the infant the
safety of their needs being met as needed.  Appropriately responding would
include a loving, warm touch, an offer of food, changing the diaper and all
while responding to the infant through touch, eye contact, and even verbally in
a smiling and positive manner.  Remembering that although it may be two in
the morning and you have had no sleep, the child’s needs will be met safely and
securely. 

David has not completed the sensorimotor stage. 
According to Piaget’s model of this stage, David still has to learn tertiary
circular reactions.  This is when David will start to experiment with
different actions to get to the same goal.  An example would be that David
will let go of a stuffed toy to watch it drop and figure out that if he let go
of his cookie the same consequence would happen.  David will also be
navigating through the invention of new means through mental combinations
stage.  This is a stage where David will learn and develop problem solving
and imitate an absent models behavior.  An example of this stage would be
David was in daycare today and was observing his friend, Troy.  Troy was
very excited and became upset when a caregiver removed Troy from the play area
for naptime.  David observed Troy throw his head back in a screaming fit
and wail in lost control of his environment.  The next morning while at
home with his mother, David was removed from his play area to take his morning
nap.  David responds by throwing his head back and wailing as he observed
Troy do yesterday while in the daycare.

Bukatko, D. (2008). Child and adolescent
development. A chronological approach. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin

STUDENT
2 RESPONSE:

A.  Imagine that you are
a psychology professional working with first-time parents. One parent says,
“Should I just let my baby cry so that he does not get spoiled?” Based on
the course materials, discuss the importance of the development of a secure
attachment in infancy, addressing the following issue:

Attachment: “The strong emotional bond that emerges
between infant and caregivers. A prominent place in developmental psychology
because of its link with successful cognitive, social, and emotional
development throughout childhood.” (Bukatko, 2008, p. 247)Now that
we know what in its basic form attachment is we can see that even as first time
parents our patients should not be allowing the child to self-sooth by allowing
the child to just cry.

·  How might the
failure to develop a secure attachment affect a child later in life?

• The
  failure to develop a secure attachment with an infant early in their life
  can lead the child to have a fear of the parent, to have anger and
  aggression issues later in their childhood as well into their adult life.

·  What
parental/caregiver behaviors can help facilitate the development of a healthy
and secure attachment in children? Try to provide an original suggestion, one
that is unique, and different from what your peers have already provided.

• Parents
  and primary caregivers can establish a strong healthy secure attachment
  with the child through face to face time. The time from birth to 6 months
  is when an infant is most impressionable to these interactions. The
  smiles, coo’s, gurgles, coming from the child that are responded to by
  the caregiver with attention are just as important as the cry’s for food,
  to be changed, or just for attention. One example of this would be a new
  premature baby, having the one on one time with her parents called
  “kangaroo”. This is when the child is placed on the mother or fathers
  bare chest. The belief, and there have been some studies done on it is
  that the skin to skin contact and the sound of the heart beat actually
  helps to improve the baby.

·  “When
secure attachment are formed based on experiences of sensitive and responsive
parenting, children become securely attached, while secure attachments
reflecting experienced insensitive and unresponsive parenting lead to insecure
attachment.” (Bosmans, 2014)

B. According to Piaget, the infant is in
the sensorimotor stage of development. David is a 9-month-old infant who can
crawl and stand up holding onto something. He can purposefully crawl toward a
ball to roll it. He can find objects that are hidden, and he knows how to get
his mother or father to come to him when he cries.

·  Has David
completed the sensorimotor stage? Why, or why not? What behaviors would you
expect to see next in David?

• There
  are 6 stages in Piaget’s sensorimotor stage, so far David appears to have
  passed through 4 of those 6 stages.
• Next
  we should see David pass through Tertiary Circular Reactions “experimentation
  with different actions to achieve the same goal or observe the outcomes” (Bukatko,
  2008, p. 201). In this stage much like his crying to get the
  attention of a parent he would do something else to get their attention.

References

Bosmans, G. V. (2014). (In)variability of Attachment
in middle childhood: Secure script evidence in diary data. Behavior Change,
31(4), 225-242. doi:10.1017/bec.2014.18

Bukatko, D. (2008). Child and adolescent
development: A chronological approach. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.