Ch.12 - Social Development: Family Influences Flashcards
The most important in maintaining marital satisfaction after a birth is
Higher levels of parental involvement
Social development begins
Before birth; babies turn their heads towards human speech
Who coined the ecological theory of contextual relationships?
Bronfenbrenner
Babies’ attachment patterns can be inferred by
Signaling and approach behaviours
Examples of signaling behaviour are
Crying, cooing, babbling
Examples of ‘approach’ behaviour are
Smiling, clinging, gazing
Ainsworth identified four stages of attachment:
Secure, ambivalent, avoidant, disorganised
Can attachment styles be passed on?
Attachment is significantly inter generational. 50% of grandmothers’ attachment styles are evident in their grandchildren
Security of attachment with one parent is inferred by
Attachment to the other parent
How can culture impact on attachment?
Individualistic cultures leave it to the parents to form their own parenting style
Individualists are reluctant to
Reprimand others’ children
What four factors determine parenting types?
Control, clarity of communication, maturity demands, nurturance
What are the four parenting styles?
Authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved
Authoritative parents are
Firm but flexible, rewarding, clear and child centered
Authoritarian parents are
Inflexible, controlling, cold and demand obedience, unclear and psychologically controlling
Permissive parents…
Lack willingness to control, put children in control of their own development despite their lack of developmental ability
Uninvolved parents are
Like permissive parents but emotionally detached
Cultural studies have investigated authoritarian parenting style and found
It is damaging no matter what
Authoritative parents practice
Behaviour control
Authoritarian parents practice
Psychological control
Social convoy refers to
Lifelong social networks
