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Nature vs nurture

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Is there a genetic predisposition, or is it managed by environments

-children are anxious—> go to environment to relieve it
-do people choose to go into sports or music bc there’s predisposition to like that sport, or because the environment creates a competency

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Gene environment interactions

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Gene and environment are working together
-having low MAO gene, and history of maltreatment, together increase antisocial behaviours

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Gene expression

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We may have a gene that acts dormant until environment triggers it to be exposed

-dormant gene—> weed use—> schizophrenia
-dormant gene—> trauma—> anxiety

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Bidirectional influences on developments

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The parents control the child, but the child’s reaction influences the parent
-development is a two way street

-baby cries during the night—> parents sleep deprived—> cannot properly give the baby what it needs—> baby cries more

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Common research designs in developmental psychology

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Cross sectional and longitudinal design

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Cross sectional design

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Different people in different age groups
-compare them on very different hypothesis

-memory test—> see how memory changes over time, does the younger have the best? Older have the worst?

Pro: relatively fast, cost effective, only need to run once

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Cohort effect is less likely

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In cross sections

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Longitudinal design

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Study groups over long periods of time
-one group, give the test multiple times throughout their lives (teens, 30, 40, 50)

Pro: sort out cohort effects, shows developmental effects in order of occurrence
Cons: attrition (people drop out), costly, time consuming

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Cohort effects have a strong effect on

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Cross sectional designs

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Post Hoc Fallacy

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Correlation does not equal causation
-A happens before B, then say A must have caused B
-just because they happened in that order, doesn’t mean A caused B to happen

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Developmental myths

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Infant determinism and childhood fragility

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Infant determinism

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Things that happen to us when were young are more significant to our development than when were older
Earlier life experiences are more significant than
-devalues things that happen later in life

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Childhood fragility

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Children are fragile creatures that should be protected at all costs
-should never be hurt, scared or make mistakes

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Why is childhood fragility wrong?

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Children are extremely resilient
-long term stress from traumatic stress is much less likely

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Example of longitudinal study

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Scottish school children measured throughout their lives
-specific measurement

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What way does post hoc fallacy contribute to myth of infant determinism

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Earlier event is causing something that happens later, the idea that it was traumatic in my early life affects me in my later life

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Prenatal development follows development of

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Zygote
Zygote=prenatal (before birth)

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Germinal stage

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When zygote divides, and grows into blastocyste
1/2 to 2 weeks

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Blastocysts

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Group of undifferentiated cells -
1/2 to 2 weeks

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Embryonic stage

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Blastocysts is now considered an embryo
-cells differentiate—> specialized functions
Week 2 to week 8

-limbs, facial, brain all begins to form

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Fecal stage

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Embryo is considered a fetus
-heart beating, bulking
9 week to birth
-longest stage

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Brain development begins

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Eight weeks
-doesn’t end until 24 ish years

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Proliferation

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Neurons develop very quickly, and used at rapid rate
-two hundred fifty cells per minute
-brain stem (survival) first to develop

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Cell migration

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Allows all cells to begin to form
-different brain structures

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Complications in prenatal development

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-miscarriage

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Miscarriage

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2 and 8 weeks
-Body innately decides there is an error in development and is no longer vital
-embryo is abandoned
-biologically based

-often happens without ever even knowing they were pregnant to begin with

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Teritagen

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Any environmental factor that has a negative effect on development
-drinking, drugs, smoking, illness, virus, X-rays
-timing affects what is affected

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What is especially vulnerable to teritagens

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The brain since it is constantly developing

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Smoking does what to developing

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Low weight birth, susceptibility, death

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premature birth

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36 weeks
-under developed lungs, brain, and physiological errors—> temperature and breathing
-cognitive delays/development

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Viability

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When a baby would survive outside the uterus
-25 weeks

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Infant reflexes

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Present immediately after birth
-if you have this reflex you wil not die
-suckling—> can you eat?
-swallowing—> will you not choke?

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Sucking reflex

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Pinky finger in babies mouth, they will start to suck on it
-needed for eating

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roodine reflex

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Stroke a babies cheek, they will turn mouth toward the feeling
-as if the food source should be there
-can they eat

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Motor behaviours

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Trial and error, voluntary

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Sitting unsupported

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Being able to hold posture while they sit

Milestones: six months

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Crawling milestone

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Nine months

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Standing unsupported milestone

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Eleven months

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Walking milestone

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Thirteen months

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Running milestone

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18-24 months

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What stage is often missed

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Crawling stage

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What causes variation in motor development

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-physical maturation
-culture

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Physical maturation

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Heavier children : need more muscle mass and bone mass to reach milestone, might reach it alter

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Culture (swaddling/stretching/upright)

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Shown to slow motor development —> infant can’t move
-babies cry less
-sleep better

Speeds up motor development—> activates tendons and ligaments

Sleeping bag with fine sand

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Childhood development (2)

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-head and torso larger than body size—> as we grow body inc to balance proportions
-growth spurts—> adolescence

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Adolescent development

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-physical and hormonal changes —> pituitary gland—> growth and reproductive system

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Estrogen

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Breast tissue and hip broadening

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Puberty

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Reproductive systems maturing
-menstral, evacuation
-timing is genetic, but some environmental

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Envriomental effect on puberty timing

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-higher socioeconomic level: better nutrition

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Twins and puberty (genetic)

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Identical—> menstruate within weeks of each other

Fraternal—> no

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Effects of aging on physical and cognitive

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Physical appearance: wrinkles, sensory decline, menopause

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Jean Piaget

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Children’s understanding is viastly different than adults understanding of the world
-children’s knowledge is only what they hav experienced first hand —> very narrow

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Piaget believed children were

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Active learners: discovered through trial and error

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Assimilation

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Assimilate information into categories that they have already learned about, or into current schemas
-worldview remains unchanged

-see a plane for the first time and calls it a bird (in the sky and flying)

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Accommodation

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“New way of learning”-> changing the way you see something, to allow it to fit to your worldview

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If child can no longer assimilate they must

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Accommodate

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Children’s development is marked by

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Stages—> theoretical differences
-one stage is mastered before you can move into the next stage

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Once puberty hits..

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Children should have mastered the stages

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Sensorimotor stage

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Birth to age 2
-focus on here and now
-senses developed —> put things into their mouth
-lack of object permanence (if i see it this real, if not it doesn’t exist in my mind)

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Sensorimotor stage major milestone

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Mental representation
-the ability to think about things that aren’t physically present
-grasp object permanence

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Preoperational stage

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2to7 years old
-begin to make symbolic mental representations (imagination)
-egocentrism (cannot think past their perspective)
-conservation tasks (lack of mental operations)

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Theory of mind

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Reason with people about their perspective

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Sally Ann test

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Child shown comic book—> sally has basket, Ann has a box—> sally has marble and puts it in her basket—> when sally leaves ann puts it in her box—> when sally returns child is asked what we should tell sally where the marble is

-can you take Sally’s perspective

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Concerted operational stage

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7to11 years
-can perform mental operations for physical objects
-struggle with abstract and hypothetical problems

-child is told feathers have the ability to break glass—> if child is still in this stage, when asked they will say that a feather can’t break glass

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Formal operations stage

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12+ years
-hypothetical reason and problem solve (pendulum task)
-if then statements —> consequences and rewards
-abstract concepts—> meaning of life, death, spirituality

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Cricitisms and critiques from Piagets stages

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-development is more continous than stage like
-inconsistent advancements in different cognitive domains that develop at different paces
-underestimated competence of children

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Vygotsky

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Scaffolding

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Learning mechanisms where parents help initially, but gradually remove structure as they become more competent
-cognitive development

-learning how to ride a bike, training wheels etc

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Zones of proximal development

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Phase of learning where children can benefit from instruction

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Guided learning

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Need an instructor telling you what to do

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Peer collaboration

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Begin learning from others, through trial and error and language

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Physical interaction with world as primary source of learning

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Children should be experimenting

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Infant social development

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-show interest in people right away
-stranger danger—> fear of unknown people

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Eriksons model

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Interested in development in social identity
-stage like model, of psychosocial development
-if we don’t resolve the crisis in the window, we bring it into the next stage

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Infant crisis

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Do we trust? Who do we trust?

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Early childhood crisis

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Control, shame, doubt, autonomy

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Preschool crisis

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Initiate and guilt when doing something worng

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School age crisis

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Am I taking chances, or am i not very good at things
-industry vs inferiority

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Adolescence crisis

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Identity vs role confusion

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Young adulthood crisis

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Intimacy vs isolation

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Middle adulthood crisis

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Generativity vs stagnation

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Maturity crisis

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Ego integrity and despair

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Temperament

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Appears early in infancy, genetically based
-influences our responses as we grow
-strongly linked to hostility and aggressiveness
-openness and adaptability

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Three styles of temperament

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-easygoing 40%
-difficult 10%
-slow to war up 15%

-10% behaviourally inhibited-> not sure how to act, change temperament based on environment and place, not settled in a style

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Contact comfort

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Emotional connections we feel with those we feel close too
-imprinting (animals) to who they believe their parent is
-infants recognize who they spend the most time with

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Harlow infant monkey

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Assumed that infants bond with who feeds them—> experimented—> reassurance contact created a stronger bond rather than nourishment

Comfort>nourishment

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Attachment styles

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How infants react to when separated from primary caregiver

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Secure attachment

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60%
-don’t really worry about being abandoned or being close with other people
-easy to leave in caregiver environment

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Insecure avoidant attachment

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15 to 20%
-very important to feel independant and self sufficient
-don’t need you
-in day care setting: drop them off, run away from you and pretend you don’t exist, when you come back they act mad at you

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insecure and anxious attachment style

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-need to be close to the caregiver and do not want to be abandoned
-cry’s and clings to leg, high anxiety all the time

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Disorganized attachment style

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Actual caregiver is the source of the anxiety
-5%

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Permissive : parenting styles

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Tends to be lenient, little discipline, very affectionate

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Authoritarian : parenting styles

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Very strict, little affection, punishes very strictly

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Authoritative : parenting styles

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Clear set of rules, with firm limits, very supportive outside those rules, more affection less punishing

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Uninvolved : parenting styles

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Uninvolved, neglectful, ignoring, no rules, no affection, no discipline

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Parenting issues

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-child listens more to their friends than you (ten or eleven)
-fathers differ from mothers
-unknown about single parents

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Fathers differ from mothers

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-less affectionate with infants
-spend less time with infant
-recognized as payments, as they spend more time in physical play

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Effects of divorce depend on

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Severity of conflict prior to the divorce
-higher the conflict the better the outcome

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Sex

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Biological status, gender to psychological characteristics

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Gender identity vs gender role

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Gender identity- self identify

Gender roles- society expected behaviours given to specific gender

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Biological influences on gender differences

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-which toys are played with
-sex segregation during play (social?)

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Social influences also play a role in gender development

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-encouragement of types of behaviour
-expectations

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Emerging adulthood

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18-22
-emotional development personality and identity become solidified
-role experimentation, what type of person am i
-moral development, what feels right and what feels wrong

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Kohlbergs theory of moral development

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Preconventional -> conventional -> post conventional

105
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Preconventional

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Stage 1: Avoid punishment
Stage2: do the right thing and get rewards
Age ten-> give answers to moral questions

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Conventional

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Stage 3: what your friends and family think, attitudes of people that you know
Stage 4: what society expects from you (law, norms)
Age of 16

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Postconventional (ethics)

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Stage 5: question based on principles, here’s why (dignity, justice, conscience)
-does this law make sense?

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Criticisms of kohlbergs

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-cultural bias
-sex bias (women more caring rather than justice)
-low correlation with moral behaviour (what you actually do)
-confound with verbal intelligence
-casual direction

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