Exam 1 Flashcards
Early Civilization for infants
Greek/Romans: harsh to build strong children with morals (infanticide)
China: foot binding
Maya: head binding
Bible: discipline
Middle Ages
teething is illness
Saints for children, use charms to protect children.
BUT, infants left to die for money consolidation. Parents had right to sell children into servitude.
Medical texts in late middle ages (1100-1300)
Few gave advice on childbirth and early infant care
Renaissance (1450-1650)
First written child-rearing philosophies
Enlightenment (18th century)
Emphasized value of children and importance of the body
Childhood time of privilege, children are good, education reform
Rousseau, Romanticism
Infants are tabula rasa, early education important, children need structure and disipline
Empiricism
Locke
19th century
Nuclear family (white)
Medical advances in infant care
Domesticity/full time mother role emerged
Public playgrounds/dolls appear
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
First to consider infants.
Natural Selection,, infants need to learn skills to survive.
Never studied children himself, but shaped how we think about infancy
G Stanley Hall (1847-1924)
First psychologist in US
Believed Science could help create better individuals and better society
James Mark Baldwin (1861-1934)
Began research program in Toronto on infant psychology where he studied movement patterns and handedness
Nature v. Nurture: Arnold Gesell (1880-1961)
NATURE:
Child study lab @ Yale 1911.
Genetic Maturation
First scientist to use one-way mirror, one of the first to study twins.
Focused on “average” child and developmental milestones.
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)
NURTURE
Classical Conditioning
John B. Watson (1878-1958)
NURTURE
Behaviorism
Children can be trained to do anything
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990)
Operant conditioning
NURTURE
Positive Reinforcer
Reward that INCREASES operant
Negative reinforcer
Removing aversive stimulus, INCRASING Operant
All reinforcement
INCREASES likelihood of behavior
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
First year important
He and Anna focused too much on NURTURE
recognized infants experience emotions, desires, and need love
First to explicitly integrate nature/nurture
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
knowledge is active process of co-construction
Intelligence is adaption to environment
What we know depends on environment and how environment responds
Stages of development
What theorist associated with maturation?
Arnold Gesell
_____ constructed the theory of attachment, and ____ observed mother-child interaction
John Bowlby
Mary Ainsworth
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Applying research on education, health care, public policy
Stage vs. continuous
Stage- piaget (object permanence)
Continuous- habituation
the interaction of genes with each other and with the organism’s internal and external environment to produce developmental outcomes, such as new structures, behaviors, and abilities
Epigenetics
Ex: PKU, differences in caregiving
Parens patriae
children are viewed as their parents’ possessions; the government may only interfere in extreme circumstances of abuse & neglect
Covers prenatal care for mothers and postnatal care for infants
Medicaid
Food vouchers up to 5 years old
Supplemental nutrition (WIC)
Some financial support to families of children under 3 years
Temporary assistance to needy families (TANF)
Provides tax refunds for working poor families
Earn income tax credit (EIC)
Prevents or protects children from abuse and neglect
State programs of child welfare
Promotes early child development for poor children under 3
Early Head Start
Parents can take up to 12 weeks off work without penalty, but usually without pay
Parental leave
Naturalistic Settings
Home, childcare, school etc.
Research is passive
Event sampling- only what you’re looking for
Narrative record- write what you see
Naturalistic settings have a high ____
External validity
Naturalistic settings need good _____ and can be used for cultural research called ___
operational definitions
Ethnographic research
Laboratory studies
• A specially designed research space that isolates the influence of selected independent variables on dependent variables
Internal validity tends to be high.
Qualitative
Attempting to capture meaning/quality of the behavior while maintaining scientific stance.
The observers focus on the meaning of the situation for participants
The ROLE OF RESEARCH TAKEN EXPLICITY INTO ACCOUNT
Examines situation in broader context
Credibility depends on researcher’s skill, experience, rigor
Quantitative
Representing complex behavioral processes with numerical index (a variable)
Employs stats to analyze data
Collects a small amount of data from a large group of people
Allows generalization to larger population
Case Studies
In depth examination of one child
Baby Biographies- infants’ early development
Single subject: gives researcher more control, but the more unique the child, the harder to replicate
Quasi-experimental (nonexperimental) Studies
Groups of participants are already formed before study
ex: twin studies, alcohol exposure, etc.
Experimental Studies
Random Assignment
IV manipulated
DV measured
Control and Contrast group
Internal validity high
External validity low
Longitudinal:
What is it, examples, cons
Reveals continuity and change within the same individuals over a long period of time, can show long term effects of interventions
Ex: birth weight and reading ability later on
Cons: time consuming, expensive, attrition of participation, practice effects
Cross-sectional
Compares different age groups at one point in time.
Ex: ability of 12/18/24 month old to imitate
Need to be ware of cohort effects (generational differences)
Microgenetic
Documents the process of development over a relatively short period of time. (Example: The onset of walking over a period of months)
Infant research methods (name 3)
- Behavior responses
- Parental report
- Archival research
Paired-preference tests
researchers determine which of two stimuli is preferred by infants
Habituation procedures
decline in looking time over repeated trials of the same stimulus
Response-contingent procedures
Infants trained to change their behavior if they can detect certain features of stimuli and will alter their behavior to receive their favorite stimulus)
Physiological recording and Limitations
Automatic recording- heart rate, respiration, brain activity, hormones eye movements.
Limits: Hard to know precise meaning, hard to say when/where response originates or is encoded in body
Issues in infant research (logistics)
Behavioral State: more likely to cooperate when awake
Inference/interpretation: infants can’t respond verbally to questions.
Issues in infant research (ethics)
since infants cannot provide informed consent to participate in research, their parents must do so
if child can answer questions verbally can give assent (agreement)
researchers must pledge to keep the subjects’ identity confidential & to limit access to their data only to those persons directly involved with the research
Both parents do not always agree about consent
researchers must be careful when communicating any developmental concerns
How to reduce bias
attention to reliability, validity, observer bias, and representative smaples
Conception
Union of ovum and spermatozoon creating zygote
Gametes have __ chromosomes. Most cells have __
23.
46
Genotype
spiral shaped molecules of DNA, which contains genes
Chromosomes work in
pairs
Regions of related genes are called
alleles
Sex linked
23rd chromosomes
color blindness, baldness, hemophilia
Dizygotic Twins
two ova fertilized and two different zygotes develop
Monozygotic
fertilized zygote divides and splits into two separate zygotes
Researchers like monozygotic twins because of the
different epigenetic markers
Measures of fetal behavior
- Spontaneous movement (around 9 weeks)
- Fetal Heart rate (110-180 bmp), used to test cognition, correlation to movements
- Breathing- begins around 10 weeks, increases in frequency
epigenome
biochemical markers that turn on or turn off actions of particular genes within DNA of each cell
Period of Zygote
End of 2nd week zygote to blastocyst. Consists of embryonic disk, sacs, and HCG
human chorionic gonadotropin
inhibits menstruation
endoderm (E)
digestive urinary and respiratory systems
mesoderm (E)
muscles bone circulatory system and reproductive system
Ectoderm (E)
CNS/brain, sense organs, skin, hair, nails, teeth
Yolk sac (E)
produces blood cells, becomes part of liver, spleen, and bone marrow
Amniotic sac (E)
grows to cover the embryo and contains the amniotic fluid (cushions fetus)
Chorion (E)
membrane that surround yolk and amniotic sacs- where placenta forms
Heat beat- Limb differentiation- Faint spine- Rudimentary sensory system- Face development-
(E)
Heart beat- end of 1st month
Limb differentiation- 8 weeks
Spine- 4 weeks
6.5 weeks- sensory system
Face- 5.5-8.5 weeks
Fetus Period
7-16 weeks
(2-3 months)
Fetal-1
Spontaneous movements, changes in glucose/oxygen levels, helps develop nerve endings in sensory receptors.
9 weeks- 2 hemispheres
15 weeks- communicates with sense organs/muscles
16 weeks- 3in/0.5 oz
Thalamocortical projections established- others give birth around now, but humans do not.
External genitals form
When does fetus look human
9 weeks
ultrasounds use
high frequency sound waves