Exam 3 Flashcards
Genie and development
locked in a room and isolated until age 13, would never be the same as other humans. told us environment and nurture is crucial.
Harry Harlow Experiment
Harry Harlow and the terry cloth monkeys. the monkeys were attached to the terry cloth mothers even if fed by the wire mothers. he argued that therefore it’s more about comfort than about reinforcement because the feeding.
John Bowlby thoughts
biological basis for attachment. babies are hard-wired to be cute (smiling, clinging, cooing, etc) and this triggers an affectionate response from adults.
Mary Ainsworth attachment styles
- secure attachment
- anxious-ambivalent attachment
- avoidant attachment
secure attachment
babies explore comfortably with their mothers present and are upset when she leaves, but are calmed when she returns
babies explore comfortably with their mothers present and are upset when she leaves, but are calmed when she returns
secure attachment
anxious ambivalent attachment
anxious even when mother is near and worse when she leaves but not comforted on return
anxious even when mother is near and worse when she leaves but not comforted on return
anxious ambivalent attachment
avoidant attachment
seek little attachment with mother and aren’t distressed when she leaves
seek little attachment with mother and aren’t distressed when she leaves
avoidant attachment
kohlbergs 3 stages
- preconventional
- conventional
- postconventional
preconventional stage
focus on self, seeks rewards or avoids punishment
conventional stage
focus on others. either obeying laws and authority or getting along with others
postconventional stage
focus on justice. societal rules have exceptions or led by deep personal beliefs.
what language abilities are innate/do we lose?
we can distinguish between all speech sounds but lose the ability for sounds that we never hear (other languages).
language development timeline
babbling: 6 months
first word: 10-12 months
vocab spurt: around 18 months (everything has a name!)
2-3 years: sentences (telegraphic speech)
4 years onward: grammar slowly progresses
Jean Piaget and knowledge
we construct knowledge by learning from our environment. learning happens when we are faced with new things that don’t fit with our current knowledge.
4 stages of Piaget’s cognitive development
- sensorimotor
- preoperational
- concrete operational
- formal operational
sensorimotor stage of development
stage where you exploring objects through interaction and sensory input. they learn object permanence by the end of this stage