Exam 4 Review Flashcards
Who defined/studied the three different temperaments in children?
Chess & Thomas
Emotional competence
Awareness of one’s own emotional state whilst detecting emotion in others.
Self regulation
Controlling one’s own feelings
Shyness with strangers
What is it
Begins at what age
Inhibited children react to unfamiliar situations with avoidance or distress
7-9 months
Inhibited vs uninhibited
Inhibited react to unfamiliarity with avoidance and distress
Uninhibited are sociable
Who coined the shy/sociable inhibited/uninhibited
Kagan
Extraversion/ surgency
Positive, Active and sensation seeking
Negative affectivity
Fear, frustration, sadness, discomfort
Effortful control
Self regulation; more easy going
Rothbart and bates temperament categories
Extroversion/surgency
Negative affectivity
Effortful control
Goodness of fit
Match between a child’s temperament and the environmental demands
Oral attachment
Who?
What is it
Freud
Bond with mother based on nourishment
Orphanage studies
Who?
What were they?
Rene Spitz
South American orphanage research showed that when removed from mother or primary caregiver there are negative long term effects
Monkey studies on attachment
Who?
Trying to show what?
Harry Harlow
Show that human attachment is based off of more than just food
Strange situation studies on attachment
Who?
4 types?
Mary Ainsworth Secure Insecure avoidant Insecure resistant Insecure disorganized
Self understanding
Cognitive representation of the self
Changes over time and is part of our personal identity
Developmental changes in self identity in infancy
Recognition of self
Developmental changes in self identity In early childhood
Confusion of self, mind and body.
Concrete descriptions of self, unrealistic positive overestimations Of self
Developmental changes in self identity in middle and late childhood
Psychological traits and social descriptions/comparisons. Real self vs ideal self, realistic views of self
Developmental changes in self identity in adolescence
Self consciousness and contradictions within the self, possible self
Understanding others: social cognition
Processes involved in understanding the world and how we think and reason about others
Self esteem
Global evaluative dimension of the self; high vs low
Self concept
Makes part of self esteem; domain specific evaluations is different areas of life
Identity: individuality
Character traits that make you an individual; what makes you special or sets you apart from the crowd
Identity: independence
Authority or control
Identity: autonomy
Independence or freedom as in the will of one’s actions
Erikson and identity (4)
Identity vs identity confusion
Adolescent experience
Psychosocial moratorium
Implications of identity confusion
Identity Diffusion
No commitment, no crisis yet
Identity Foreclosure
Commitment, no crisis yet
Identity Moratorium
No commitment, in mid crisis
Identity Achievement
Commitment Made, crisis behind you
4 types of identity statuses
Diffusion
Foreclosure
Moratorium
Achievement
Biological influences on gender
Hormones and hormone disorders
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Women produce more androgens than average
Androgen insensitive males
More feminine characteristics
Pelvic field defect
All or some of external genitalia missing for males
Social role theory
Gender differences result from contrasting roles of men and women. Society dictates these roles