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Class 2 Flashcards

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Nature vs nurture behaviorism

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Fully nurture

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Skinner’s air crib

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A climate controlled box that did not catch on strictly because it was skinner

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Harry Harlow

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A primate researcher who conducted studies on baby monkeys for attachment

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Harry Harlow experiment procidure

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A baby was separated from its mom right away. A wire monkey fed it while the cloth monkey was just there. The time the monkey spent with it and the actions when around them was measured

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Harry Harlow experiment results

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The monkeys hung out with cloth mom the most and only went to wire mom to feed. They were more confident when cloth mom was present, ran to her for comfort

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Harry Harlow experiment conclusion

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We have an innate mechanism that lead us to find pleasure from physical contact. Comfort contact over food

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Wire raised moneys only

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They had poor survival rates

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John Bowlby

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Studied humans and determined that attachment begins with contact comfort and is the base of our first attachment

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3 tenets of Bowlby’s theory

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Sensitivity, secure base, competence

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Sensitivity

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Responsive care giver gives a secure attachment

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Secure base

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When a child feels they have a secure base they are more likely to explore with confidence

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Competence

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Secure attachment promotes social competence later in life

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Seperation anxiety in babies

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Starts around 6-8 months and peaks at 15 months. Cross cultural suggesting that it has a biological component

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Are all babies attached the same

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Mary Ainsworth answered no using the strange situation test

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Steps the the strange situation test

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Mom and baby enter a new room with toys
A stranger enters
The mom leaves
The mom returns
The stranger leaves
The mom leaves
The stranger returns
The mom returns
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Length of each stage in the SST

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3 minutes

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Two things observed in the SST

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The amount the child explored the toys in each situation, and the child’s reaction to their mom coming and going

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Secure attachment presentation

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Cry when their mom leaves, relief when mom returns, explore more when mom is around, and are more attached to mom than a stranger

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Insecure subcategories

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Insecure avoidant, and insecure anxious

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Insecure avoidant presentation

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Doesn’t care when mom leaves, seeks little contact when mom returns, treats the stranger the same as mom

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Insecure anxious (ambivalent)

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Resists contact when mom comes back, sad when they are there, cry to be picked up want to be put down, resist comfort

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Caregivers of secure attachments

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Caregivers are responsive, sensitive to expression of the child’s needs

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Caregivers of anxious attachments

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Inconsistent, hit-or-miss or chaotic, expressions of need ineffective

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Caregiver of avoidant attachments

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Emotionally unavailable and/or rejecting caregivers

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Other considerations
Culture, parenting techniques, daycare, genetics, unresponsive, neglect, temperament, abandonment, stressful circumstances
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Culture
Some babies are raised with many adults and are fine with strangers because of exposure
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Parenting techniques
Most of them led to a secure attachment
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Daycare
Had no effect of a child's attachment to their parents
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Genetics
Child's genetically influenced temperment
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Unresponsive
The parent is not responsive to the child's needs
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Neglect
Abandonment and deprivation in the first two years of life
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Temperment
Forms personality for the rest of our lives
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Abandonment
Parent that is truly abusive, neglectful of erratic
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Stressful circumstances
In the family
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Attachment over time
Childhood predicts our adult behavior and relationship quality
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Longitudinal study procedure
Looked at the parenting style of a group of 18 month olds. 22 years later looked at the romantic relationships the babies formed
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Longitudinal study results
The ones with a secure parent attachment have a secure attachment to their romantic partner
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Avoidant attachment in relationship
Less sexual intimacy, but more casual sex. Infidelity of all types, and less support provision
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Anxious attachment in relationship
Controlling or intrusive, uses sex to feel loved, perceiving partner as inattentive and unwillingly to commit, over perceives conflict
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Cognitive ability
Thinking, reasoning, making choices
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Piaget
Developed a theory of cognitive development of why kids have different abilities at the same age
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Piaget experiment
Observed kids playing games, asked them questions, and solve problems.
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Piaget experiment conclusions
That kids at the same age have the same level of reasoning. They make the same errors
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Piaget's 3 principles
Errors area as interesting as correct, strategies are not random or meaningless, strategies reflect interaction
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Schema
Flexible concept or framework to make sense of info by organizing and interpreting it
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2 forms of adaptation
Assimilation and accomidation
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Assimilation
Absorbing info into prexisting schemas
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Accomidation
Modifying past belief to accomidate for new information
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4 stages of learning
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
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Sensorimotor stage
Birth to 2. Learn about the world though their senses and motor interactions. Learn object permanence (he said around 6 months)
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Preoperational stage
2-7 years. A stage is devoted to language development, using symbols, pretend play, and mastering the concept of conservation. Children are egocentric and cannot reason logically
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Egocentric
Unable to see things from others perspectives
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Conservation
The quantity of something is the same despite different arrangements. Preoperational cannot understand this because of centration and irreversibility
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Centration
Focus on only one feature of the problem
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Irreversibility
Cannot envision reversing an action
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Conservation in bartenders
They poured more alcohol into short wide glasses than tall skinny ones thinking it was the same

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