Development Flashcards
Biologically primed form of attachment?
Imprinting
What did Harlow study
Attachment
Indiscriminate attachment behaviour
Newborns
Discriminate attachment behaviour
3 months
Specific attachment behaviour
7-8 months
Separation anxiety
Getting anxious when the mother leaves
12-16 months to 2-3 years?
Separation anxiety
Goal corrected partnership?
Ages 3-4
Strange situation test?
Type of attachment the baby has that involves playing with a stranger
Reacting positively during the test and distressed with mother’s leave
Secure attachment
Insecure attachment consists of?
Anxious resistant
Anxious avoidant
Anxious resistant?
Fearful all the time
Anxious avoidant
Show little to no signs of attachment
Secure infants are?
better socially adjusted
Nonsecure infants more?
Behavioural issues
Prolonged attachment deprivation can lead to
Long term risks
In cognitive performance (daycare controversy)
No differences except in high quality daycare
4 styles of parenting
Authoritative
Authoritarian
Indulgent
Neglectful
Demanding but caring
Authoritative
Warm but careless
Indulgent
Assertion of parental power without warmth
Authoritarian
Indifferent and uninvolved
Neglectful
Which parenting style is most ideal?
]Authoritative
Children of indulgent parend?
Are immature and self centred
Children of neglectful parents?
Negative developmental outcomes
Gender identity
(2-3 years), sense of femaleness or maleness
Gender constancy
(6-7 years) understanding one’s sex is permanent
People being treated differently based on sex
Sex typing
Kohlberg’s stage theory
Moral development
Preconventional reasoning is?
Level 1, judge what is right and wrong based on reward and punishment
Conventional reasoning is?
Level 2, Moral judgment based on conformity to expectations of society
Post conventional reasoning?
Based on conscience as well as general principles that are a part of a person’s values
How was Kohlberg’s theory criticized?
Western cultural bias
Gender bias
Thinking is prioritized over behaviour
Carol Gilligan’s criticism?
Differences between men and women in terms of values
Hauser proposed?
Innate intuitive neural mechanism
Which brain part is involved in some aspects of moral decisions
Prefrontal cortex
Early maturation generally more positive for ___?
Boys