ch. 13 developmental psych Flashcards

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John Bowlby (1907-1990)

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british psychologist who studied the impact of mother-child separation and proposed attachment theory

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1944 published forty-four juvenile thieves (Bowlby)

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case studies of youth [thieves and non-thieves] at the London child guidance clinic

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Maternal deprivation hypothesis

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prolonged separation from the mother in early childhood leads to pathological personality development in adolescence

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Who started the study of the effect of maternal deprivation?

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1948 with james robertson and john bowlby

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What did the effect of maternal deprivation study consist of?

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involved children who’d spent long periods in hospital during the first 4 years of their lives at that time parental visitation was limited

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What was a 2-prong procedural approach?

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study of the effect of maternal deprivation

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What did the study by bowlby and robertson find?

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found that these children went through 3 stages after being separated from their mothers

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2nd stage of maternal deprivation

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children who were separated for over a week from mothers, once saw again, babies showed no affection

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1st stage of maternal deprivation

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agitated when they were left in hospitals without mom

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3rd stage of maternal deprivation

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once they went home, started a relationship with mom but never regained trust or some never regained relationship

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What film came from maternal deprivation?

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A two year old goes to the hospital, this led to reforms in hospital practices

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Who did bowlby hire for data anylsis?

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Mary Ainsworth

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What did bowlby publish after partnering with ainsworth

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Attachment theory (3-volume serious 1969)

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Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999)

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canadian-american psychologist who developed the strange situation

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Strange situation

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a laboratory procedure for testing attachment style in which the mother briefly leaves her child alone in a unfamiliar room

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What did Ainsworth do in Uganda?

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Went in 1953, to observe information of mother-infant bonds and what happens when it is disrupted

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Why do different attachment styles develop due to differences in maternal sensitivity ?

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depending on how attentive and responsive a mother is to her infants needs

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Mary Main (1943- )

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american developmental psychologist who has constructed methods for assessing attachment styles during the early school years, adolescence and in adulthood

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Who developed the adult attachment interview ?

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mary main

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Who discovered the fourth attachment styles of ainsworth disorganized attachment?

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Mary main

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Diana Baumkind (1927-2018)

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american psychologist and pioneer in research in parenting styles

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Who was the first to do a longitudinal study of both mothers and fathers ?

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Diana Baumkind

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What did the longitudinal study by Baumkind include?

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children were preschoolers, followed 100 families through school age to late adolescence

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Who developed three types of patenting styles?

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Baumkind (Authoritative, authoritarian & permissive)

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Authoritative

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supporting and responsive parents who also set firm limits to there children

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Authoritarian

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strict parenting, high expectations for children

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Permissive

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they look at their child as an equal

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Who wrote effect of authoritative parental control on child behavior (1966)?

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Diana Baumkind

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Albert Bandura (1925-2021)

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canadian-american psychologist best known for his bobo doll experiments

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What did Bandura do in bobo doll?

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exploring aggression in young children

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What did bandura believe social learning as?

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believe social learning as a process of modeling in the 1960’s

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social cognitive theory (bandura)

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people construct their own lives by choosing for themselves which models to emulate, which to reject

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4 factors needed for social cognitive theory (bandura)

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attention, remembering, reproducing the action & motivation

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Who was the leader of observational learning?

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Bandura

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Self-efficacy

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a set of beliefs about one’s ability to cope with particular challenges

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High levels of self efficacy

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= example when taking psyc360 and you put in the hard work (goes to SI, study groups etc) → means you have high levels of self efficacy

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Insecure attachment

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low levels of self efficacy

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Secure attachment

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high levels of self efficacy

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Eleanor Gibson (1910-2002)

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American developmental psychologist, who used the visual cliff procedure to test the depth perception in infants

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Visual Cliff (Gibson)

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Infants avoid the visual cliff (an apparatus consisting of a glass surface) from the time they are able to crawl, The babies won’t cross the glass surface because it seen as unsafe

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What happened to the (1960) published article “The Visual Cliff” in Scientific American?

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Life magazine ran a feature on it, One of the few scientific articles to ever be published in Life magazine

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Kenneth Clark (1914-2005) & Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983)

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African American psychologists who met at Howard University

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How did Mamie grow up?

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Mamie grew up privileged (father a doctor, mother a stay-at-home-mom) → this was very unusual for African American households during that time

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How did Kenneth grow up?

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had a very impoverished and rough upbringing (mom knew he was very intelligent → therefore she didn’t want him to attend the local HS → went to the school board and begged them to transfer him to a better highschool = could go to Howard U afterwards)

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Who founded the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem and the organization Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited

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Mamie & Kenneth

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What study did Kenneth and Mamie do together that went to the Supreme Court?

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They conducted the doll studies that were cited in the Supreme Court decision that declared segregation unconstitutional

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What was starting point for the doll studies for Mamie?

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Mamie’s Master Thesis

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dolls studies (clarks)

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which were to study the psychological effects of segregation on African-American children

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How did the Clark’s conduct the doll study?

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used white and brown dolls to explore Black children’s self-esteem and self-awareness of racial identification and attitudes with children from segregated (South) and racially-mixed schools (North) Children: 3-7

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What did the children believe the doll study was?

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The children who participated thought this was a game: brought into the room, 4 dolls with different skin colors (two dark, two light) but other than that the dolls were identical

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What did researchers ask children in the doll study?

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asks the children “give me the nice doll” “give me a doll with the nice color” “give me the doll that you want to play with the most” “give me a doll that looks like a colored child” “give me a doll that looks like a white child” “give me a doll that you want to play with” “give me the doll that is the n-word”

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Findings of the doll study?

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black children from segregated schools had lower self-esteem and accepted their inferior status as a norm. these results argued against segregation in court

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Alexander Thomas (1914-2003) & Stella Chess (1914-2007)

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American child psychiatrist who developed 3 temperament styles

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temperament

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behavioral profile that is present in the infant at birth

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The New York Longitudinal Study (began 1956-1977)

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followed 133 children from infancy through adulthood to study temperament, included Parent report & naturalistic observation

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Found 9 factors (characteristics) that are involved in temperament development (NY study)

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Activity Levels, Reguraility, Approach/Withdrawal, Adaptability, Intensity of Reaction, Threshold of responsiveness, Quality Of mood, Distractibility, Attention span

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What did they conclude from the NY study?

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Concluded that most of their subjects fell into three broad categories of temperament: Easy, Difficult, & Slow-to-warm-up

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Activity Levels

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some babies move around a lot in their crib,

while others stay in the same spot

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Reguraility

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some eat, sleep and poop on schedule, while others don’t

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Approach/Withdrawal

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some infants will approach new

situations/toys/people and enjoy it, while others will avoid

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Adaptability

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some adapt very easily, some not (takes a while)

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Intensity of Reaction

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some laugh super loud/cry so that the

entire building heard, while others just smile/just weeps

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Threshold of responsiveness

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some can hear, smell and see
everything and react to it most often wit distress, while others
can sleep through a hurricane

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Quality Of mood

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some wake up every morning super happy,

others are irritable

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Attention span

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some babies play happily with one toy for a

long time, while others get tired of a toy after a minute

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Jerome Kagan (1929-2021)

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American developmental psychologist who argued for the role of temperament in the formation of attachment styles

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Who wrote 1962 book Birth to Maturity

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Kagan wrote it, 20 years of data went into this study

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Who did Kagan question?

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He questioned some of the assumptions of the attachment theories suggested by Bowlby and Ainsworth

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What did Kagan argue?

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He argued that innate characteristics of the infant (temperament) also play role in the formation of attachment combined with maternal sensitivity
(environmental factor)

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Martha Bernal (1931-2001)

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The first Hispanic-American woman to earn a PhD in psychology; clinical psychologist

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What were Bernal’s 2 goals?

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To fight racism in her field (clinical psychology, academica, research), To find effective treatments for behavior of children of color

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Who did Bernal advocate for?

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advocated for multicultural psychology programs that recognized diversity in training, research, & recruitment
and for the need for clinical psychologists with training in minority mental health issues (effective treatments/interventions)

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Who raised awareness of racism in academia

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Bernal

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Who helped establish National Hispanic Psychological Association

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Bernal

75
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behavioral interventions (bernal)

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these focused on the needs of

children from ethnic minorities

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Bernal developed methodology for

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measuring ethnic identity and

studied the developmental course of ethnic identity in Mexican American children

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Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005)

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Russian-born American psychologist who developed the Ecological Theory of Development

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Who was the Co-founder of the Head Start program (1965)

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Urie Bronfenbrenner