3.1 Problems with Developmental Psych Flashcards
1
Q
explain watson’s impact. what did his book promote?
A
John Watson
* published Psychological Care of Infant and Child 1928
* don’t kiss/hug your kids + show love
* motherly love is dangerous
2
Q
john bowlby summary
A
father of attachment theories
3
Q
benjamin spock summary
A
wrote ‘common sense approach to child rearing’ 1946
4
Q
rene spitz summary
A
studied instititionalised infants, trying to get orphans reared w others
5
Q
harry harlow impact
A
worked w monkeys + importance of mother-infant bond
* monkeys prefer fluffly model monkey over wire one w milk
5
Q
what has prompted maternal anxiety with reference to science?
A
- many conflicting and complicated articles published, instructions taken as gospel
5
Q
what does maternal separation cause?
A
- early emergence of adult-like fear and extinction learning in pups
- contextual renewal of fear
- failure of infantile amnesia
6
Q
outline maternal corticosterone exposure
A
- separate mother + pups
- mother’s stress hormones increase
- reunite; first thing mother does is nurse pups
- pups receive high corticosterone milk
6
Q
impacts of limited bedding
A
- mums ‘abusive’
- roughly handled pups grow up w range of physiological + behavioural adverse impacts in adulthood
