DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

developmental psychology

Answer 1

Developmental psychology: the study of continuity and change across the life span
Infancy (from birth to between 18 and 24 months)
Childhood (from 18-24 months to 11-14years)
Adolescence (from 11-12 years to 18-21 years)
Adulthood (from 18-21 years to old age)

Question 2

infant brain

Answer 2

passing through mom vajayjay
human infant to adapt to wide range of environments

Question 3

infant’s brain

Answer 3

passing through the vajayjay
adapt to a wide range of environments

Question 4

how do we measure what an infant knows

Answer 4

sucking
eye movement

Question 5

vygotsky

Answer 5

children develop through interations with members of their own culture
joint attention
limitation of intention
social referencing

Question 6

joint attention

Answer 6

ability to focus on what another person is focused on; prerequisite for social learning

Question 7

limitation of intention

Answer 7

ability to do what another person does

Question 8

social referencing

Answer 8

ability to use another perso’s reactions as information about how to think abou the world

Question 9

social development HARLOW

Answer 9

money attachment
results:
Developed behavioural abnormalities
Were incapable of communicating with or learning form others
Were incapable of normal sexual behaviour
Became rejecting mothers

Question 10

bowlby

Answer 10

argues that infants innately channel their signals to primary caregivers to form attachment

Question 11

attachment

Answer 11

emotional bond that forms with primary caregiver just after birth, social reflex (prodosposition)

Question 12

strange situation

Answer 12

behaviour test developed by Ainsworth used to determine a child’s attachment style
Infants tent to react in one of 4 ways, demonstrating their attachment style: secure, avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized

Question 13

attachment styles

Answer 13

Secure attachment: infant not distressed when caregiver leaved and acknowledges her return; or distressed when caregiver leaves bit is consolable; 60% of american infants
Avoidant attachment: infant not distressed when caregiver leaves; does not acknowledge her return 20%
Ambivalent attachment: infant distressed when caregiver leaves; difficult to calm when she returns 15%
Disorganized attachment: no consistent response patterns 5%