Chapter 10 Flashcards
Privation
When attachment never occurs, that is if an infant/child never forms a close relationship with anyone.
Assimilation and example
According to Piaget, the process where new experiences are combined with existing schemes.
Eg when an infant experiences a new toy for the first time, they want to put it in their mouth and suck on it.
Accomodation
Piagets term for when new situations, objects or information are encouraged and the persons schemes is either modified or a new schema is created
Schema
A representation of a theme or theory
Emotional development
Study of emotions including when people learn emotion and how to deal with it.
What are piagets 4 stages of cognitive development and the ages they happen
Sensorimator stage birth to 2 years old
Preoperational stage 2-7 years old
Concrete operational 7-12 years old
Formal operational 12 years plus
What happens in sensorimotor stage
Infant knows the world through their senses and begin to learn object permanence(understanding an object still exists when it is no longer seen)
What happens in pre operational stage
Continue to develop, has conservation
Concrete operational
Can preform mental problems and cognitive development is achieved
Formal operational stage
Can mentally manipulate ideas, think hypothetically about abstract ideas
Harry Harlow theory of attachment
1950, tested that monkey raised with a cloth serogate mother will act more attached compared to a monkey raised by a mother.
Showed attachment formation requires contact comfort
What is the Iv and dv in harlows experiment
Iv- cloth or wire monkey
Dv- amount of hours spent on each
Marry Ainsworth experiment
1950s, looked at the quality of attachment between infants and care givers, used the strange situation technique and concluded 3 types of attachments
What are the 3 types of attachments Mary Ainsworth concluded
Insecure avoidant attachment-shows no distress when caregiver leaves the room
Secure attachment-happily plays when care giver is presents, os very attached to the caregiver, but becomes distressed when the caregiver leaves.
Insecure resistant attachment- becomes extremely distressed when the caregiver leaves and will continued to be distressed, cry and will not play.
What is the strange situation situation
Involved infants experiencing a series of events that includes separation and reunions with Thierry mothers and introductions to an adult stranger
What is psychosocial development
Development occurs over the whole lifespan, from infancy to old age and is on going
It’s the development of our personality
What was Eric’s eriksons theory
Believed we go through 8 stages of development which involve conflicts, if these conflicts are not resolved, we have problems later on in life.
Need to go through each stage
Example is when adolescences are finding themselves
John bowlby theory
1969, believed that the development of attachment is genetically inherited
Object permanence
Showing a toy to a child then hiding it and asking them if it still exists.
Two reasons for criticising piagets work
- Worked on his own children
2. Different cultures and environments affect the rates people develop
What do extreme cases, such as genie, suggest about sensitive periods In learning ones first language
Genie missed the sensitive period for learning language, she was able to learn a bit later in life after hard work, but never fully recovered and still was unable to understand it completely
