Jeffrey Palermo - Coping with Uncertainty: Behavioral and Developmental Perspectives

Coping with Uncertainty: Behavioral and Developmental Perspectives

The Penn State Series On Child & Adolescent Development

Series Editors:

David S. Palermo and Richard M. Lerner

Palermo Coping with Uncertainty: Behavioral and Developmental Perspectives

Coping with Uncertainty: Behavioral and Developmental Perspectives

Edited by

David S. Palermo

The Pennsylvania State University

First published 1989 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Published 2014 by Psychology Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Coping with uncertainty.

Based on a conference held at the Penn State campus, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1986; sponsored by the Foundation for Child Development.

Includes index.

1. Stress (physiology) Congresses. 2. Uncertainty Psychological aspects Congresses. 3. Developmental psycobiology Congresses. I. Palermo, David Stuart, 1929- . II. Foundation for Child Development. [DNLM: 1. Adaptation, Physiological congresses. 2. Adaptation, Psychological congresses. 3. Human Development congresses. 4. Stress, Psycological congresses. WM 172 C7835 1986]

QP82.2.S8C66 1989 155 88-21448

ISBN 13: 978-0-805-80157-6 (hbk)

Publishers Note

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent.

Contents

Seymour Levine and Sandra G. Wiener

Elizabeth J. Susman, Editha D. Nottelmann, Lorah D. Dorn, Philip W. Gold, and George P. Chrousos

Lewis Landsberg and Diane R. Krieger

Joanna M. Hill

David A. Blizard

Megan Gunnar, Denny Marvinney, Jill Isensee, and Robert O. Fisch

Jerome Kagan, Nancy Snidman, and J. Steven Reznick

Anne C. Petersen, Elizabeth J. Susman, and John L. Beard

Jeffrey A. Gray

Contributors

Dr. David Blizard

Bowman-Gray School of Medicine

300 S. Hawthorne Road

Winston-Salem, NC 27013

John L. Beard

Department of Nutrition

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Dr. George P. Chrousos

NICHD

Building 10, 10 North

9000 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD 20205

Ms. Lorah Dorn

E-203 Henderson Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Dr. Robert O. Fisch

Department of Pediatrics

4125 Philip Wangensteen Building

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Dr. Philip W. Gold

Room 3S239, Bldg. 10

NIMH

9000 Rockville Park

Bethesda, MD 20205

Dr. Jeffrey Gray

Maudsley Hospital

De Grespigny Park

Denmark Hill

London, SE5 8AF

ENGLAND

Dr. Megan Gunnar

Institute of Child Development

University of Minnesota

51 East River Road

Minneapolis MN 55455

Dr. Joanna Hill

Sectionon Brain Biochemistry

Clinical Neuroscience Branch

NIMH, Building 10, Room 3N256

9000 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD

Dr. Jill Isensee

19361 Normandale

Prior Lake, MN 55372

Dr. Jerome Kagan

William James Hall

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138

Diane R. Krieger, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

Beth Israel Hospital

Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

330 Brookline Avenue

Boston, MA 02215

Dr. Lewis Landsberg

Harvard Medical Schol

Beth Israel Hospital

Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

330 Brookline Avenue

Boston, MA 02215

Dr. Seymour Levine

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Primate Facility 7-930T

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305

Ms. Denny Marvinney

Indiana University

Psychology Clinic

Bloomington, IN 47401

Dr. Editha D. Nottelmann

Lab. of Developmental Psychology

NIMH

9000 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD 20205

Dr. Anne C. Petersen

Dean, College of Health and Human Development

104 Henderson Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Dr. J. Steven Reznick

Department of Psychology and Social Relations

Harvard University

33 Kirkland Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Dr. Nancy Snidman

Department of Psychology and Social Relations

Harvard University

33 Kirkland Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Dr. Elizabeth J. Susman

E-203 Henderson Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Dr. Sandra G. Wiener

Department of Psychiatry

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-5095

T his book marks the beginning of a new series growing out of the activities of The Center for the Study of Child and Adolescent Development at The Pennsylvania State University. In a sense, this volume provides a scholarly tribute to the vision of Dean Evan G. Pattishall, Jr. He recognized the large body of individuals interested in developmental processes spread across the Penn State campus and suggested the formation of a Center that would act to coalesce that group for their benefit and, in so doing, bring about the formation of a nucleus of individuals who might have a significant impact on our understanding of the developmental processes. Thus, in 1984, the Center came into being. Richard Lerner was appointed as director and I accepted the position as associate director. Among the many activities we initiated as a part of achieving the goals we set for the Center was the initiation of a series of conferences that focus on the most important developing ideas in the field.

As the first meeting of our Advisory Board, convened for the purposes of guiding the early activities of the Center, we discussed our conference plans and Jerry Kagan indicated that he had been thinking of a conference concerned with the physiology and psychology of stress. The idea had several attractive features. First, the focus of the conference had obvious developmental implications that had received little attention from those working in these areas. Second, the problem was interdisciplinary, a natural aspect of our conception of the Center. Thus, with Jerrys help we selected and invited an outstanding group of researchers drawn from those who have approached the problem from the physiological and/or the psychological side of the issue. We asked them to discuss the relations between the biological stress circuitsincluding the pituitaryadrenal axis, the reticular activating system, and the autonomic nervous systemand the behavioral concomitants to stress in animals and humans. In addition, we asked the participants to think and talk about the developmental implications of their work in relation to the periods of infancy, childhood, and adolescence, a task some found challenging.