Infancy Flashcards
Schemas
Children’s organization of representations
Occurs thru assimilation and accomodation
Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages
Birth-1: Trust is formed w/ warm attitudes
3-6: Initiative taken on
6-11: Peers evaluate
Adolescence: Who am I?
Young Adult: (Intimacy vs. Isolation) Establishment of intimate bonds
Middle Adult: Generosity and giving back
Old Fart: Reflection
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
Birth-2: Children repeat chance behaviors; gauge response
Pre-operational: (2-7) Children begin to mimic normal actions; cant think logically tho
Operational Thought: (7-11) Reasoning is logical
Formal Operational Thought: (11+) Children can think theoretically
Temperament
Idea that children are born with characteristics that make them individuals
Judged by: Intensity of emotion
Activity level
Attention
Most well-developed sense @ birth
Touch
Least-developed sense @ birth
Vision
- 20/20 vision develops @ age 1
- Eye movements are slow, innaccurate
Social capabilities of infants
Imitation: Birth
Social smile: 1-2 months
Laughing: 3-4 months
Increased smiles for familiar people: +6 months
*Start expressing emotions @ 3-6 months w/ fear developing last
Infant Milestones
Sit w/o support: 6-7 months
Teething: 6-8 months
Fear of strangers & Crawling: 8-12 months
First Words/ Walking: 12-15 months
Circle of security
Looks to parents as support; caretaker
Comes back to them as “base”
“Secure attachment”
Avoidant Attachment
Child is unresponsive to parent
=>can distress parents; baby is fine
Freud’s Psychosexual stages
Oral-feeding
Anal (1-3): Toilet Training
Phallic (3-6): Adopt parent’s same sex characteristics
Latency: Acquisition of social values; same-sex relationships
Genital: Sexual impulses aimed towards others