{"id":8374,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/maternal_responsiveness\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:01","slug":"maternal_responsiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/maternal_responsiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternal responsiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extent to which a mother anticipates a child&#8217;s needs, or responds accordingly to the child&#8217;s behaviors. &nbsp;It has been found to promote early language acquisition, as well as cognitive and emotional development more generally, making distinctive contributions in these instances. &nbsp;Imitation by the mother constitutes a cardinal feature of maternal responsiveness. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"interaction\">Interaction<\/a>, <a href=\"imitation\">Imitation<\/a>, <a href=\"intuitive_parenting\">Intuitive parenting<\/a>, <a href=\"parenting\">Parenting<\/a>, Parenting styles, Sensitivity (attachment theory)   <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extent to which a mother anticipates a child&#8217;s needs, or responds accordingly to the child&#8217;s behaviors. &nbsp;It has been found to promote early language acquisition, as well as cognitive and emotional development more generally, making distinctive contributions in these instances. &nbsp;Imitation by the mother constitutes a cardinal feature of maternal responsiveness. &nbsp; &nbsp; See &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/maternal_responsiveness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maternal responsiveness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}