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Continuous process model of communication
"Both partners are continuously active and continuously engaged in the communication. There are opportunities to modify the actions of partners as they occur, without the need to wait until they are finished" (Fogel, 1993, p. 27).

Co-regulation
"Continuous unfolding of individual action that is susceptible to being continuously modified by the continuously changing actions of the partner" (Fogel, 1993, p. 29).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coregulation

Creativity
"Creativity is characterized by a stance of openness to the partner a willingness to allow events to unfold and to be shaped by the process" (Fogel, 1993, p. 31).

Embodied
Being incorporated into the system or whole, particularly when speaking of being incorporated with the body. Embodied cognition, for example, is not involved with internal representations, but biological mechanisms and their interactions with the surrounding environment.

Frame
"Regularly recurring communication routines such as social games, play with toy objects, and bedtime, bathing, and feeding routines" (Fogel, 2001, p. 246).

Innovations
"Innovations emerge out of the fabric of the ongoing relationship process, and then become integrated into that process often leading to new consensual frames for co-regulation" (Fogel, 1993, p. 91).

Participatory cognition / memory
"Memories that are in the form of feeling or sensation rather than being conceptualized as a specific incident; composed of emotions, desires, and a sense of familiarity, but without any specific time or place" (Fogel, 2001, p. 73).

Conceptual memory
"Memories of specific categories for type of event ('I was left alone'), time ('when I was 5 years old'), and place ('at the preschool'); recall about an event that is communicated in the form of a verbal narrative or story" (Fogel, 2001, p. 72).

Relational-historical approach
"Conceives of relationship development as an historical process constituted by patterns of communication as they are formed, maintained, transformed, and dissolved over time" (Fogel, A., Garvey. A., Hsu, H., & Wert-Stroming, D., (2006). Change processes in Relationships: A Relational - Historical Research Approach. Cambridge University Press). This approach utilizses multiple case studies for making intensive observations across key developmental transitions in order identify patterns of communication or ‘frames’. It also involves the use of quantitative analyses of real time sequences and developmental trajectories of patterns of communication combined with qualitative descriptions of the historical emergence of change and stability within dyadic communication.

Self (ecological, emergent, embodied, categorical, etc.)
Emergent: "The perception of sameness over time in behavior, feelings, and states of arousal; the sense of familiarity of the body that persists even when objects and people come and go" (Fogel, 2001, p. 201).

Ecological: "The ability to recognize the body and its senses, feelings, and movements" (Fogel, 2001, p. 246). Affectivity agency, coherence, history.

Differentiated Ecological Self: "The awareness that the ecology has localized entities, such as self and other or self and object, shown by the different ways in which infants call attention to themselves such as asking for help, taking the initiative, clowning and showing off, demanding, and hiding and esxcaping" (Fogel 2001, p. 287).

Existential: "The ability to recognize one's own features as different from someone else's. It involves an awareness of the self as someone who can be recognized and can be distinguished as a whole person from other people" (Fogel, 2001, p. 403).

Categorical: "A concept of the self as belonging to one or more categories, such as that of baby or female" (Fogel, 2001, p. 402)


Dynamic systems theory
A system consists of different components that openly and dynamically interact with one another resulting in the self-organization of the system. These systems show the spontaneous emergence of organized patterns and processes due to the mutual influences of the components within the system.
   
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