Emotional/ moral Development Flashcards
Ainsworth’s strange situation
observed the infants attachment to caregiver
Insecure disorganized babies
Babies are disorganized and disoriented, fearfulness around care givers
According to Dale Stack what shapes a child’s emotional competence
parenting behaviours affect children’s emotional competence over time and acorss
What does temperament involve
Individual differences in behavioural styles, emotions, and characteristics ways of responding.
What did Chess and Thomas classify infants as in regards to temperament?
easy, difficult or slow to warm up to
John Bowlby ethological theory stresses that
The importance of attachment in the first year of life, that both infants and their primary caregivers are biologically predisposed to form attachments
Bowlbys conceptualization of attachment (Phase one)
from birth to 2 months infants instinctively orient to humans figures
Bowlbys conceptualization of attachment (Phase two)
2-7 months attachment becomes focused on one figure, normally the primary caregiver
Bowlbys conceptualization of attachment (Pase three)
7-24 months actively seek contact with regular caregivers, such as mother or father
Bowlbys conceptualization of attachment (Phase 4)
24 months on, children start to understand the goals and intentions of the attachment figure
Securely attached babies
Babies who use the caregiver as a secure base from which to explore the environment
Insecure avoidant babies
Babies who show insecurity by avoiding the caregiver
Insecure resistant babies
Cling to caregiver and then resist caregiver when they return
Social conventional reasonings
focus on conventional rules established by social consensus
Heteronomous morality
The first stage of development in piagets theory, occurring from 4-7 years of age, rules are unchangeable