Lifespan Flashcards
Early Influences on Development -Nature vs Nurture
Nature vs Nurture
- Nature-
- character & stress the role of heredity
- Nurture
- characteristics & role of experience
Early Influences pair inheritance
Sex link Heredity
Polygenic
Phenotype
Genotype
- single pair inheritance
- 2 recessive genes or 1Recessive& 1 Dominant
- sex link inheritance influence by the gene of one sex (often X chromosomes)
- Polygenic inheritance-influenced by multiple genes (height, weight, hair color, intelligence, susceptibility to cancer
- Phenotype-observed (hair color, eye color) due to genetic & environment
- Genotype-genetic inheritance (height)
Prevalence of Heredity
IQ children, adults & SES
- .50 for children
- .80 for adults
- .10 for young children ↓SES
- .70 young children ↑SES
Role of Environment
Critical Period vs Sensitive Period
- critical-limited time when exposure must happen in order to develop
- first 8 weeks gestation–vital organs..if they do not develop then they will not develop
- ducks imprinting first 15 hours critical
- sensitive period-longer than critical-time is optimal not necessary
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological theory
- Microsystem -child’s immediate environment (parent, siblings, friends)
- mesosystem-interactions w/childs microsystem (school, neighborhood watch, parent-teacher
- Exosystem-affect child immediate environment (extended family, stressed parent from work takes out on kid)
- Macrosystem-social&cultural environments-cultural practices, political ideologies, religion, values
- chronosystem-persons lifespan, impacts development and character (chronological-passsage of time)
Heredity and Environmental Influences on Intelligence
- identical twins reared together .85
- identical twins reared apart .67
- fraternal twins reared together .58
- Biological siblings reared together .45
- Biological siblings apart .24
- Half siblings together .35
- Adopted siblings reared together .31
- Biological parent and child together .39
- Biological parent and child apart .22
- Adoptive parent and adopted child .18
Genotype
Passive genotype environment correlation
- PASSive-genes PASSed down
- inherent gene from parent that predisposed you to certain things and support that
Genotype
- Genetic make up inheritance
- contains express and unexpressed characteristics
- heritability estimate 60% of genetics 40% environment
Genotype
Evocative genotype
- EVOcative-EVOke emotion
- environement
- genetics bring up a certain type of response from parents and others reinforcing this response
Genotype
Active genotype
- ACTIVEly pick a hobby
- environment AKA niche-picking
- will only seek experience that fits their genetic disposition
3 genotype changes over time
- 3 environments
- Passive & Evocative most important
- ↓
- Infancy & Adolescence
- Active type
- ↓
- More important & children ↑independence over time as they find their niche
- Passive & Evocative most important
Reaction Range
- how people respond to certain influences
- is the response broad or narrow
Reaction Range
Canalization
- genetic makeup can restrict development regardless of the environment (ID mild, mod, severe)
Dynamic Systems Theory
- needs nature and nurture development
- complex process involves biology, environment, control ourselves & interact with others, how we think or represent the mind
Dynamic Systems
Rhythmic sterotypes
- voluntary complex behaviors
- milestones develop based on the characteristic of the child, and physical environment, goals and desires
Epigenetics
definition
chemical cap
- changes brought on by modifications of gene (phenotype) rather than changes in genetics by DNA (genotype) altering gene expression
- chemical cap-DNA adding methly group to DNA molecule which will KEEP OUT certain genes
Epigenetics
Environmental factors
- include changes in diet, pollutants, and child abuse which can be passed on by one or more generations of the individual
Prader-Willi Syndrome
chromosome abnormality
deletion paternal chromosome 15
Pathological overeating (hyperphagin)
narrow forehead, abnormal eyes, short stature
Angelman Syndrome
- chromosome deletion
- deletion of the maternal chromsome 15
- microcephaly (small head and brain)
- unnaturally happy
- ataxia and hand-flapping
- looks like autism, cerebral palsy and Prader-willi
- appear happy and smile at everything
- UBE3a
Cri-du-chat syndrome
- chromosome deletion on chromosome 5
- high pitched (cat-like cry) ID, DD, Microcephaly
- ↓ birth weight, weak muscle tone, characteristic facial features (wide set eyes, low set ears, round face)
Klienfelter syndrome
- think ken is male only happens in males
- ken has eXtra X- chromosome XXY
- normal development but
- gynecomastia (breast enlargement)
- ↓testosterone
- longer arms and legs, usually taller
Turner syndrome
- all or part of X is missing
- effect females
- don’t develop secondary characteristics
- maybe infertile,short stature, stubby fingers
- LD, VI and/or HI, heart, kidney and urinary problems
Down syndrome
Mosaic Trisomy 21
Translocation
- autosomal-not sex chromosomal
- trisomy 21 (extra 21 chromosomes) cell has 47 instead of usual 46-error in cell division
- hypotonia-short stocky build in addition to other symptoms
- ↑ risk for Alzheimer’s disease.’
- Mosaic trisomy 21-only some of body cells have extra 21–error in cell division
- Translocation trisomy 21-some cells full and some cells partly have trisomy 21 attached to another chromosome usually chromosome 14 error in cell division or inherited
Teratogens
- drugs
- disease
- environmental hazard
- most sensitive time between the 3rd and 8th week of conception
Prenatal exposure to Alcohol
- FASD
- FAS
- pFAS
- ARND
- ARBD
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
- Fetal Alcohol syndrome (FAS) most severe-including face & cognitive differences, cns dysfunction and slowed growth
- Partial fetal alcohol syndrome (pFAS) less severe but same symptoms as FAS, slowed physical growth may not be present
- Alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND) involves CNS w/o the other sx
- Alcohol-related births (ARBD) heart, kidney, vision and other physical defects w/o prominent symptoms
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Prenatal Exposure to Cocaine
- spontaneus abortion during first tri
- shrill piercing cry
- irritability, overly active, shaking baby, difficult2calm
- ↓birth weight (5.5 or ↓)
- children have attention, memory & behavior
- adolescence difficultly w/problem solving & absolute reasoning
- ↑ risk for delinquency
Lowbirth weight, preterm, small for date infants
- lowbirthweight at birth ↓5.5 pounfd
- Preterm-born before 37 weeks
- ↑preterm rate for nonhispanic black mothers
- ↓preterm rate 4 nonhispanic & Asian mothers
- Small for date infants at ↑ risk than preterm
- small gestation age
- >10% percentage
- more likely to do this within 12 months of birth
- ↑likelihood for brain damage & ↑ risk for infections
The Brain
Newborn weight
- 25% adult weight -newborn
- 80% adult weight by 2 years of age
Brain-synaptogenesis
- most neurons are present at birth and ↑ in size
- create new synapses, dendrites & myelination (axon covered in fatty substance)
- act as insulator
- peaks at 2 to 3 years of age
- use or lose (if we use they are strengthened if we do not we lost them)
Brain-synaptic pruning
- loss of unused synapses & continues through teens
Brain cerebral cortex
- cerebral cortex least developed at birth, continues to develop through late teens or early/mid 20’s
Brain weight
- ↓at age 30 w/↓ neurons
- ↑loss of neurons at 60
- ↓frontal lobes (prefontal cortex) & parietal lobes
Brain-neurogenesis
specifically what is it and where is it happening
- production of new neurons in the hippocampus and other areas of brain
Depth Perception-Kinetic-Vision
- least developed sense
- 3 to 4 weeks old 20 ft →to normal at 7 to 8 months 400ft-600 ft
- newborns prefer patterns and faces
- kinetic (motion) cues
Vision-Binocular
- steroscopic
- which derives intergrated information from each eye
- age 3-5 months
Vision- Depth Perception-Pictorial
- Static-monocular
- 5-6 months
- perceived only in one eye
- depth perception size
- shadows & line perception
Vision-Presbyopia
- age 40
- hardening of lens
- difficult to focus on nearby objects
- ↓sensitivity of light
- ↓depth perception
- ↑sensitivity to glare
- ↓ability to discriminate between colors
Audition
- newborns sensitive to sounds specifically ↑fz frequency sounds
- 6 months of age it is close to adult
Auditory Sound localization
- turns head toward sounds
- ↓2 to 4 months then ↑ by 12 months to normal
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Presbycusis
- hearing ↓ at 40 years old
- ↓sensitivity to ↑fz sounds
- gets worse in the presence of background noise
Age related hearing loss
related to risk of Alzheimers
Touch and Pain
- first touch to develop in utero & well developed at birth
Touch and pain newborns
- newborns not given pain med during circumcision respond ↑ at 4 to 6 month vaccinations
Touch and pain-early exposure to pain
- ↑ response full term
- ↓ response pre term
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- unexpected death at night under 1
- serotonin abnormalities in medulla (regulates breathing and other functions)
SIDS-risk factors
- increase risk
- decrease risk
- ↑ SIDS- ↓birth weight, males, use of drugs or alcohol, black or indian, 6 months or ↓ (peak 2 to 4 months), bed sharing, stomach sleeper
- ↓SIDS-back sleeper, breastfed, avoid overheat baby, no strap pacifier, bare crib sleeper,
Gross Motor Milestones
- 1-3 chin to chest, roll to side
- 4-6 sits trunk supported, rolls back to front
- 7-9 sits alone, pull to kneel, pull to stand
- 10-12 creeps, cruise, takes steps
- 13-15 stands alone, walks well, walks and carry toy
- 16-18 walks backwards, throws the ball
- 19-30 walks downstairs holding the rail, kicks ball overhead, jumps from the bottom step
- 31-36 walks swinging arms, balance on one foot, pedals tricycle, catches ball
- 4 years hops on one foot to balance on one foot
- 5 walks down stairs alternating feet, hops on one foot several times, balances foot more than 8 seconds
Physical Maturation in Adolescence
- growth spurt
- girls 10 or 11
- boys 12 or 13
- peaks 2 years of start then slows down last total of 3 to 4 years
Puberty- boys
- sexual maturation-usually about same time as a growth spurt
- boys
- early-more +, ↑self-esteem, social maturity, ↑ popularity & better athletic skills, have sex earlier, ↑the likelihood of alcohol use & antisocial behavior
- late- more negative, ↓ self-esteem, ↓ popularity, ↓academics, ↑ anxiety&depression
Puberty Girls
- early onset, negative, ↓self-esteem, ↓popularity, ↓academics, ↑eating disorders,↑depression,↑the risk for promiscuity, ↑ risk substance use
- late onset, + ↑ sociaibility, popularity, & academics.
Infant depth perception
- kinetic
- binocular-stereoscopic
- pictorial
Adolescent Substance Use and Abuse
- subtance use decline ages 12-17 (2018)
- 9% reported drinking alcohol w/n past month
- 8% illicit drugs
- 4% tobacco use
Risk factorsAdolescence substance abuse
- stressful life events
- parental substance abuse
- weak parent-child relationship
- affiliation w/peers using substances or deviant
- mental health ADHD or depression
- favorable attitude toward usage
- ↓social skills
- ↓academics
Protective Factors
- parental disapproval
- good self-control
- supportive parenting
- age-appropriate parental monitoring
- academic success
- involvement in Extracurricular activities
- positive peer influences
- good self-control
- religion
Teen substance use on brain development
- limbic system develops before prefrontal cortex
- limbic is involved in emotions/motavation-nucleus accumbens (part of brain reward system)
- prefrontal cortex-planning, decisions & impulse control
- since these develop at different times teens may do things based on emotion/pleasure vs rationalization/thinking taking more impulsive and risk-taking behaviors
- ↑ likelihood of substance abuse
- effects of alcohol and substance ↑ 4 teens than for those who started later adolescence/early adulthood greater risk substance disorder
Language Development
Theories of Language Development
3
- learning theory
- nativist theory
- social interactionist theory
Language development
Learning theory
- language is the result of
- interactions
- imitation
- reinforcement
Language Development
Nativist Theory
- biologically wired to learn language
- Chomsky LAD language acquisition device
- enables children to understand & speak
- all languages have basic grammar structure and developmentally all kids pass through language stages
Language Development
social interactionist theory
- we learn language by both biological & social factors
- innately children want to understand and be understood
Child-directed speech
- parentese
- speaking slowly
- ↑ pitched voice
- limit vocab
- repetition in sentences
- exaggerated key words and focus on present
Components of language
5 major parts
- phoneme-smallest unit English has 50
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Morpheme-smallest unit w/meaning (
- prefix & suffix, free or bound
- Semantics-meaning of words
- Syntax-organization of words or phrase
- Pragmatics-language used in social context to communicate effectively w/others
Crying
- first ways babies communicate
- low pitched rhythmic-hunger or pain
- shrill-anger or frustration
- loud high pitched-loud ↑ pitched followed by silence
Responses to cry
- Mother Child
- quick&consistent cried ↓in later months
- ignored during 9 weeks cried ↓ next 9 weeks
- quick 2 severe ↓ 2 minor learned 2 regulate distress on own
Language Milestones
stages of speech (6)
- Cooing-6-8 weeks repeated vowels
- Babbling-3-6 months single consonant-vowel
- baby will say all language sounds until 9 months then narrows down to their language
- Echolalia-9 months repeated w/o meaning
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First Words- 10 to 15 months express meaning
- 8 to 9 months understand
- Holophrastic-speech 12-15 single word entire thought
- Telegraphic speech 18-24 two word (nouns & verb & adjective)
Language Errors 3 types
- 2 to 3 years old
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Overextension-too broad word
- doggie (all animals)
- Underextension-too narrow doggie (only for family pet)
- Overregulation-mix apples for plural & past tense (foots or telled)
Language Brokering
- children translating for parents
- (+) strong interpersonal skills, self-confidence, & academic self-efficiency
- (-) effects, ↑ anxiety, frustration, ↑embarrassment & also role reversal as a parent becomes de parent or child
Cognitive Development
Piaget Constructivist Theory
- combines biological motivation & experience
- constructs knowledge from environment
Equilibration
- drive to be balanced between thoughts and environment
Disequilibration-assimilation & accomadation
- drive to restore balance through adaptation
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assimilation-relates new info w/previous infor
- dog-cow same both have 4 legs
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accommodation-child modifies previous knowledge to fit
- dog-cow different makes diff sounds
Piaget Sensorimotor
- birth to 2
- Reflexive Circular-1-4 Repeats things he enjoys
- SecondaryCir4-8 Reproduces actions(shake toy)
- Coordinate 20 8-12 combine’s20 to get goals
- Tertiary Circular 12-18 deliberately experiments
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Intermentization of Schemas 18-24
- develops mental representation
Piaget
Object Permanence
- sensorymotor stage
- recognize people and objects continue to exist
Piaget
Representational (symbolic thought)
- allows children to use mental images, gestures and words to represent people
Piaget
Make-Believe Play
- aka pretend play
- aka symbolic play
- acting out everyday activities
Piaget
Deferred Imitation
- remembering actions of others and act out later
Preoperational Stage
- 2-7 years of age
- children think about past and future
- ↑ in make-believe play
- symbolic
- functional/play/representation
Preoperational Stage
Transductive Reasoning
- makes children think unrelated events that happen at the same time are related
Preoperational Stage
Egocentrism ****
- can not see things from another’s perspective
Preoperational Stage
2 outcomes/limitations of this stage
- Magical Thinking just thinking about something can make it happen
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Animism-inanimate objects have lifelike qualities
- the chair looks sad
Preoperational Stage
characteristics of preoperational
centration &
irreversibility
- Centration
- focus on one aspect excludes others
- Irreversibility
- can undo something
- kids think you cannot take playdough out of the package and then put it back in
Piaget
Concrete Operational Stage
- Logical thinking
- 7-12 ages
- logical operations allows you to think of concrete situations
Concrete operational
Conservation
- (volume)
- shape can change & still be the same
- pour same amount of liquid into a glass then pour tall or wide
Concrete operational
Decentration
- focus on more than one thing at once
Concrete operational
Reversibility
- process can be reversed
- understands things can be reversed
Concrete Operational Stage
Conservation of number/seralization (seriation)
- conservation of length, liquid, mass, weight, and volume
Concrete Operational Stage
Horizontal Decalage
- gradual development of skill
Formal Operations
- 12 years to adult
- think abstractly/moral thinking
- metacognition-thinking about thinking
- this is not always developed
Formal Operations
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
- derive and test alternative hypothesis
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Formal Operations
Propositional thought
- evaluate logic w/o concrete examples
Formal Operations
Renewed Egocentrism
- cant separate own abstract thought from others
Formal Operations
- Elkind
- Imaginary Audience
- Personal Fable
- Imaginary audience-teen believes he is always subject of peoples attention
- Personal Fable-teen believes they are special and cannot be harmed
Vygotsky-social cultural theory
- aka-social mediated learning
- cognition learning/language is inter 1st & intrapersonal 2nd
Vygotsky
private speech
proximal development
scaffolding
make-believe play
- private speech-speech child utters aloud till age 7
- proximal development-gap between independence, things needs from adult assistance/prompts
- scaffolding-is the help given to child by questions/prompts feedback
- symbolic play-learn more make believe pretend play
Cognition
Childhood amnesia
- 6 months old-recalls 24 hours
- 20 months old-recalls up to 12 months
- Most adults doe not recall before age 3 or 4
Cognition
Reminiscence Bump
- elderly largest # recalled events w/n last 10 years
- recent life events and
- 2nd largest ages 15-25 perhaps identity formation
Cognition
Effect of increasing age
memory decline
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary memory
- older adults
- ↑ the decline of recent long term memory→secondary memory→working short term memory
- less affected by the elderly
- Primary memory-storage of short term
- Tertiary memory-remote long term
Cognition
Elderly memory
declarative and nondeclarative memory
- declaritive memory-explicit memory includes episodic & semantic
- autobiographical, facts, and knowledge
- Nondeclaritive memory-(very little decline)implicit memory, procedural memory(learned skills & actions memories)created by classical conditioning and priming (exposure to prior stimulus ↑ recognition of stimulus)
Cognition
Synchrony Effect
- optimal time for success on visual and verbal memory problem solving and other cognitive tasks
- specifically, tasks hold back a response
- peak time morning for older adults
- late afternoon for younger adults
Sex differences in cognition
math ability
- girls ↑ computational skills
- boys ↑ math reasoning & problem solving
Sex differences in cognition
verbal ability
- girls ↑ childhood&adolesence speech & writing
- boys ↑ measures verbal analogies
Sex differences in cognition
visuospatial
- girls none
- boys-↑visuospatial especially mental rotation
Sex differences
aggression
- girls-covert-relational
- ignoring or teasing targets hostile
- boys-overt-verbal & physical as early as 2 years old
- more likely to be antisocial
Sex differences
self-esteem
- girls none
- boys- ↑ global self esteem & ↑ in adolesence & adulthood
sex differences
developmental vulnerability
- girls none
- boys-pre-& perinatal hazards & disease
- ↑ADD, ↑AU.↑ID, ↑ speech delays
Self-Fulfilling prophecy
- parents influence
- children internalize parent view (boys good n math)
- girls believe they lack math abiilty
Gender difference treatment in parents
- gender difference treatment on a decline
- mothers and fathers treat children differently
Temperament
Thomas & Chess
3 types of temperaments
- 9 dimensions w/3 main groups
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Easy temperament**
- Easily adapt to situations, + mood, 40%
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Slow to warm up temperament
- somewhat (-) reactions to new situations & need time to adjust
- mildly (-), 15%
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Difficult temperament
- don’t react well to change, prefer routine
- cry frequently, ↑energy, ↓irregular feeding
- 10%
Temperament
Thomas & Chess
Goodness of Fit
- behavior of child has to match social environment with temperament
Temperament
Rothbart
constitutional
reactivity
surgency
negative affectivity
self-regulation
- reativity & self-regulation
- constitutional-biological (hereditary, maturation & experience)
- reactivity-response by latency, duration, intensity, affective, and mother both + & - stimuli
- surgency/extraversion-↑activity level, pleasure ↓shyness
- Negative Affectivity-mood instability, sad irritable
- Self Regulation-facilitate, maintain, & inhibit reactivity effort control, inhibit a dominant response→subdominant response
Kagan
Behavioral Inhibition BI
- response to strangers (-) & withdrawn
- ↑ salivary cortisol & muscle tension→↑amygdala
- ↑continuity found w/individuals w/extreme inhibition
- *stable BI→↑risk of anxiety disorder in childhood and adulthood especially social anxiety
Personality
Freud Psych Sexual Stages Definition
- birth to end of adolescence Libido (sexual energy)
- excessive gratification or frustration in a stage can cause a child to get stuck in that stage
- successful outcomes are known as Virtues
Personality
Erickson Psych Sexual Stage Definition
- social and cultural influences on personality & views
- 8 stages
Freud vs Erickson Stage
age Freud Erickson
birth-1yr oral trust vs mistrust/hope
1-3yrs anal autonomy vs shame & doubt/will
3-6 phallic initiative vs guilt/purpose
6-12 latency industry vs inferiority/competence
adolescence genital identity vs role confusion/fidelity
young adulthood intimacy vs isolation/love
middle adulthood generativity vs stagnation/care
late adulthood integrity vs despair/wisdom
Parenting style
Baumrind 2 parenting dimensions
demanding & responsiveness
- demandingness-aka control
- responsiveness aka acceptance and warmth
Parenting styles 4 types of styles
Authoritative
Authoritarian
Permissive
Uninvolved
- Authoritative
- ↑demanding & ↑ responsive
- best outcome parents include child decisions
- Authoritarian
- ↑ demanding & ↓ responsiveness
- parent control, respect authority, harsh punish
- ↓nurturance & affection & discourage autonomy
- Permissive Parent
- ↓ demanding & ↑ responsiveness
- very accepting of child behaviors
- encourages child to express feelings & aggression
- children are self-centered, immature & rebellious
- children ↓ impulse control, ↓social skills↑ academics
- Uninvolved
- rejecting & neglecting
- ↓ low demands & ↓ responsiveness
- worst outcomes
- children ↓self esteem, self control, moody, noncompliant, ↓social skills,↓academics
Personality Changes in Adulthood
Big 5 changes during
adulthood
sex differences
- Big 5
- Neuroticism ↓
- Extraversion & Openess2 experience →remains stable or ↓slightly
- ↑Agreeableness & ↑Conscientiousness
- Sex Differences
- Women
- ↑neuroticism, agreeableness, openness 2 feelings
- Men
- ↑assertiveness & openness to ideas
- Women
Self-Awareness & Identity Development
Self-awareness
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Self-awareness-apparent at birth
- mirror self-recognition aka facial mark test
- 18 months child is self-aware when he touches own nose w/mark vs touching mirror (passes test)
Self-Awareness & Identity Development
Self-awareness–element Self Understanding
- part of self awareness
- Early childhood
- ages 2-6
- gender & age 1st characteristic
- Concrete observable 2nd characteristic
- Middle Childhood
- age 7-11
- self-descriptions are general personality traits & social comparison
- Adolescents
- age 12-18
- abstract qualities include belief & values & psychological qualities
- characteristics are not always consolidated
Gender Identity Theories
Kohlberg’s-cognitive development theory
- influenced by Piaget gender development depends on cognitive development
- 3 stages of Identity
- Gender Labeling/Identity ages 2-3
- identify self as male/female
- Gender Stability ages 4
- gender id consistent boys become men
- Gender Constancy age 6 years and older
- gender does not change. it is stable over time and across settings
- Gender Labeling/Identity ages 2-3
Gender Identity theory
Social Learning Theory
- development of gender identity & gender performance comes before gender-related beliefs
Gender Identity Theory
Bussey and Banduras Social Cognitive theory
- gender development comes from watching people of the same gender where only children receive praise when they perform gender specific behavior
Gender Identity
Bem’s 1981
Gender schematic/aschematic
- cognitive development & social learning where children develop gender theories into schemas when they perceive, code and interpreter information about themselves and others
- Gender Schematic
- people use gender norms to guide behavior
- Gender aschematic
- gender behavior was not reinforce
Gender Identity
Egan & Perry Multidimensional Model
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Membership knowledge-
- knowledge of gender
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Gender typicality
- how person sees his gender similarities compared to other of the same gender
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Gender contentedness-
- satisfaction with his gender
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Felt pressure
- degree of pressure felt to conform to gen norm
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Intergroup Bias
- belief his group is superior to other group
Gender Identity
Psychological Androgyny
Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI)
- self report measure of gender identity
- 4 scales
- Feminine ↑feminine/↓masculine
- Masculine ↑ masculine/↓feminine
- Androgynus↑ Feminine/↓ Masculine←best type
- Undifferentiated ↓ Feminine/↓ Masculine
Gender Identity
Androgynous benefits
- people are better than gender type in responding
- ↑ adapt better in behaviors
- ↑ self esteem
- ↑ more like by peers
although conflicting evidence may argue masculine traits rather than androgynous
Gender Identity
Adolescent Identity Development
- MARCIA
- Identity diffusion
- no identity crisis, no commitment, not checking options, not making goals
- Identity Foreclosure
- no experience to identity crisis but strong commitment, accept what parents what them to become
- Identity Moratorium
- still exploring MORE options before commitment
- Identity Achievement
- experience crisis
- explore options
- made strong commitment
Social Emotional Development
Harlow & Zimmerman
- contact comfort
- important for infants attachment
- wire-mesh mother vs cloth mother
- they need the contact and comfort
Attachment
Bowlby’s Ethological Theory
- infants & mothers are biologically made to have an attachment
- it is made through sucking, crying, smiling, cooing and anything necessary for survival
Attachment
Bowlby 4 stages of attachment
- Preattachment
- attachment in the making
- clear cut attachment
- formation of reciprocal relationships
Bowlby
Internal Working Models
- self
- others
- self-relationships with others in the future
Signs of Attachment
Ainsworth
signs of attachment
- 6 months of age
- Social referencing 6-8 months
- looks at parents to see how to respond
- Separation anxiety 6-8 months ↑14-18 months then↓
- Stranger Anxiety 8-10 months & ↓ by age 2
Ainsworth Patterns of Attachment
Strange Situation def
& 4 types of attachment
- stranger situation babies are separated then reunited several times
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Secure attachment
- moderate distress seeks mom when she returns, prefers parent to stranger
- moms are sensitive & responsive
- Insecure/resistant-Ambivalent-
- close to mom, upset when she leaves, dismiss when she returns, fearful of stranger
- moms are inconsistent in care
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I**nsecure/Avoidant
- indifferent, does not care whether she stays or goes, no distress
- mothers are rejecting, intrusive or overstimulating, dismissive, unresponsive
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Insecure Disorganized
- fearful of mother, baby appears confused/dazed (usually maltnurition)
- mother is abusesive or neglectful, responds in frightening way
Consequences of Attachment
Adult Attachment Interview (AA)
3 types of Adults
- early attachment experience from parents & attachment patterns of children
- Autonomus-childhood relationships →secure child
- Preoccupied-angry, confused or passive, preoccupation childhood→resistant child
- Dismissing- provide + descriptions w/o memories→avoidant child
Impact of SES & Culture
- ↓ SES children are more likely insecurely attached caregivers
- secure attachment can occur despite poverty
- secure attachment most common in western culture & non western community
- due to more the quality of caregiving vs culture
- Insecure/avoidant-USA & Germany
- Insecure/resistant-Japan & Israel & collectivist cultures
Early Separation from Primary Caregivers
Distress
- babies 7 months & ↓ separated w/very little distress
- babies ↑ 7 months ↑stranger anxiety & when returning home clung to mother & cried when separated from them
Critical Period of Separation
- after 7 months it is considered a traumatic experience for the baby
- it does not get better until after the middle of the first year of life.
Early emotions
Primary
Secondary
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Primary Emotion
- birth to 18 months
- contentment, interest, distress turns 6m joy, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger & fear
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Secondary Emotion
- self consciousness development of self-awareness
- 18-24mexhibits envy, empathy&embarrassment
- 30-36m all above + shame, guilt & pride
Emotions in Adulthood
Age related change
+ & - change in emotions
- emotions↓ over time from age 20-60
- +emotions remain stable
- emotions may ↑after 60 years of age
Age related changes in emotional memory
+ & -
SST social selectivity theory
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Positivity effect
- + effect older adults remember more + than younger adults
- age 70 & older - emotions remained stable + emotions increased
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SST Social Selectivity Theory
- focus on real of positive information than (-)
Effects of Shame & Guilt
- recognition of one’s attributes & behaviors
- usually, with someone, we are close to
- Motivation for Δ ↑ for shame
- shame causes distance self from event
- guilt →apologize→repair
Aggression
hostile
instrumental
- hostile aggression harm or injury to victim
- Instrumental aggression achieve another goal such a toy, object, humiliate someone to gain status
Causes of Aggression
Coercive family interaction model
- parent threaten/physical punishment stop behavior
- children learn behaviors from parents including ignoring or tantrums
- aggressive parent child interaction
- interactions escalate over time
Coercieve Disipline
↑stress, difficult temperament and personality characteristics
Causes of Aggression
Oregon Model (PMTO)
- coercieve family cycle
- provide family w/therapy & teach to deal w/stress & parenting skills
Crick and Dodges
Social information processing model
6 steps
- Encoding cues-children focus on provoking behavior, ignore the not
- Interpretation of Cues-aggressive children feel provoked intent is hostile
- Clarification of goals-aggressive children want to retaliate
- Response search-aggressive children have little response other than aggression
- Response decision- aggressive children response be cautionary, believe it will work
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Behavioral enactment-aggressive children act aggressively
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Causes of aggression
Videogames and aggression
- violent videogames contribute to violent behavior especially adolescents and young adults
- ↑exposure violent video game→↑aggressive behavior, aggressive conditions, aggressive affect
- ↓prosocial behavior, empathy & sensitivity
- the relationships are even ↑ w/people w/know risk
Intervention for Aggression
-
Parent training- most effective
- equally effective for poor & non poor families right after treatment when childs problems are most severe
- poor families benefit less when problems were mild
- (1) year follow up families poor did worse than non poor
Culture of Honor
acceptance
south
- more prevalent in the south
- willingness respond 2 threat w/violence&aggression
- ↑acceptance violence warmer climate & ↓SES
- the tradition of slavery→based on herding
- predisposes violent stand
- cultivates extreme violence2percieved threat
- ↑rate of homicide from arguments w/threat to honor
- southern men react to insult with
- ↑levels of anger
- ↑cortisol & testosterone
- more likely to endorse violence
Social Relationships in Childhood
Play
nonsocial vs social
- Developed by Parten
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Nonsocial play
- unoccupied wonders,
- solidtary-plays alone
- onlooker-watching, and talks but doesn’t participate
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Social Play
- parallel play-alongside
- associative play-interacts with goals
- cooperative play-interacts with achieved goals
Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence
Selman (1980)
Level 0, 1,2,3,4
- Level 0/Momentary Playmates (MyWay) 3-6 years
- friends are from school or neighborhood
- Level 1/One-way Assistance-(ForMe) 5-9 years
- friend extend beyond just school or home there people who are nice
- Level 2/Two-way Fair Weather Cooperation (rules)
- 7-12 years
- fairness & reciprocity
- I be nice & you be nice or no friends
- Level 3/Intimate, Mutually Shared-Caring& Sharing
- Share secrets & genuinely care, feels betrayed if friend has other friends
- Level 4/Mature Friendships “Friends through thick & thin”
- 12 years and older
- value emotional closeness w/friends, accepts differences & does not feel threatened by friend
Social relationships
Peer Status unpopular w/friends
rejected/aggressive/withdrawn
neglected
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rejected-aggressive children
- hyper, conflict w/peeps, trouble regulating emotions, misinterpret intent for hostility
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Rejected-withdrawn children
- submissive & passive
- ↑social anxiety
- (-) expectation of others
-
Neglected-↓rates of interaction
- no disruptive behaviors
- strong adaptive skills
Peer Status
Rejected vs Neglected
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Rejected kids-
- ↑loneliness
- ↓self-esteem
- ↑peer rejection even with school change
- Neglected kids
- experience ↑ in peer status w/school or social group change
Social Relationships in Adulthood
Cartenson’s Socioemotional selectivity theory
2 types of friendships
- friendship perception based on the amount of time left in life
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Future oriented-time unlimited
- knowledge-seeking friendships
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Present Oriented-time limited
- emotional closeness friendship, more selective
- feelings are more important in friendship
Social Relationships in Adulthood
Emotion Regulation
- Unhappily married couples ↓ likely to engage in (-) startup
- ↓ likely to respond to partners expressions of anger, disgust or (-) emotions
- *they have learned how to limit (-) emotions
School and Family Influence
Predictors of Divorce
Emotionally Volatile vs Emotional Inexpressive
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Emotional Volatile-attack defend patter
- argue then makeup repeatedly early divorce
- conflicts criticism, contempt defensiveness and stonewalling
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Emotional Inexpression-avoidant
- avoidance of conflict & later divorce
- avoid self-disclosure & expressing emotions
Predictors of Divorce
Sociodemographic Factors & Individual Characteristics
- ↓ risk at ↑ of marriage
- ↑ risks ↓SES
- ↑ risks if couple had child before marriage
- ↑ risk for psychopathology & ↑levels of neuroticism, (most consistent) anxiety, depression, self-doubt
Consequences of Divorce (parent& child)
Effects on Parents
- diminished capacity to parent-up to 2 years after divorce- ↓ sensitivity to children & preoccupations of problems of divorce
- custodial mothers show ↓ affection to sons ↓ consistent, ↑ authoritarian in discipline
- noncustodial partners more indulgent & permissive
Consequences of Divorce
Effects on children
children, preschool, boys and girls & sleeper effect
- children who are well-adjusted ↓ problems
- Preschool most negative outcomes but shortrun
- Older children long term is worse, ↑ painful memories
- boys ↑ (-) short & long term effect
- girls (-) effects more immediate however not obvious
- sleeper effect-noncompliant, ↓ self-esteem, emotional problems as adolescence, marry young, worry about betrayal or abandonment
Consequences of Divorce
Marital Effect
- ↑conflict interact families ↓ adjusted children
- frequency of fitness child saw noncustodial parent less impact than
- child support, father/child relationship
- fathers authoritative parenting style
Consequences of Divorce
Stepfamilies
biologial family
simple stepfamily
blended stepfamily
- children w/biologicial parent & stepparent have worse outcomes than being w/both parents
- simple stepfamiles (1step/1biological) improves over time & is better then blended stepfamilies (children from both families previous marriages) and children from intact conflicted families
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Consequences of divorce
(-) outcomes bio and step parent
boys vs girls
young children
tens
girls vs boys
- (-) outcomes when both parent & stepparent have authoritative parenting style and the step parent is supportive of bio parents decisions.
- boys benefit ↑ than girls of having a stepmom/dad
- young children ↓ age 9 adjust better to a stepparent
- younger children have less adjustment issues
- age 10-14 have the most problems may be due to age of finding out the identity
- girls harder time & greater risk outcomes than boys
Premarital Cohabitation and Divorce
rate cohabitating before marriage
rate cohabitating after marriage
Kuperberg rate of divorce & cohabitating
- initial studies said living together ↑ rates of divorce
- now (2000’s) living together 1st-year↓ divorce rate→ then divorce rate ↑ after subsequent years
- 2014 Kuperberg indicates rates of divorce ↑ at the age of living together
- early age of living together ↑ likelihood of divorce
Transitions to Parenthood and Relationship Quality
relationship quality
adaptive parents marital relationship
family and friends
parenting responsibilities
- parenthood is ↓in relationship quality ↓ in conflict
- adoptive parents had better outcomes
- ↓marital stress, ↑stable patter of relationship quality
- family & friends to support, help relationship quality
- parenting responsibilities also plays a part in relationship.
Adopted vs Biological Children
school issues
behavior issues
mental health
outcomes
- adopted children more school problems
- adopted more likely school to contact parent, retention and suspension
- adopted-school will call behavior issues, physical & emotional problems ADHD, SLD & AU
- it is believed these poorer outcomes may be due to several prenatal risk factors or malnutrition, neglect or abuse
Helicopter Parents
parent behaviors
stress impact on child
stress impact on college student
- too involved in every part of child’s life
- child cannot deal, cope, group or mature alone
- make decisions for child or intervene to prevent failure
- ↑benevolent (well-meaning) than an authoritarian parent but has a similar style of parenting
- ↑stress & anxiety, ↑feeling of entitlement, ↓autonomy, ↓emotional&self regulation↓ motivation & achievement
- college students ↑depression, ↑substance use, ↓competence in friendships & romantic relations
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Gay and Lesbian Parents
- do not differ from heterosexual children
- parenting skills are similar or better than hetero
Custodial GrandParents
positive consequences
negative consequences
- Postive consequence
- grandparents have closer relationship, ↑sense of purpose, opportunity to nurture relationships, & second chance on life
- Negative consequence
- ↑stress, depression anxiety, insomnia, and chronic health problems than traditional role grandparents
- grandparents will neglect their own well being psychological and physical health, financial difficulties , social isolation and conflicts with bio parents and others
Empty Nest
- Initial studies say it was emotional crisis now it is more positive than negative outcomes
- women ↑ satisfaction w/relationships w/partner & quality time w/partner
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
- physical violence
- sexual violence
- stalking
- & psychological aggression
Intimate Partner Violence
Walker’s Cycle of Violence
3 phases
- Phase I
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Tension building phase
- tension between couple, abuser ↑ hostility & very critical
- victim trys to anticipate abusers wants& meds to please or calm them
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Tension building phase
- Phase II
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Acute Battering phase
- verbal abuse or physical attacks
- victim may no longer be able to control partners hostility or may unintentionally provoke
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Acute Battering phase
- Phase III
-
Loving Contrition Phase
- honeymoon phase
- abuser expresses remorse
- abuser is loving & kind tries to concern victim it will not happen again
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Loving Contrition Phase
Johnson’s Typology
4 types of IPV determined by 2 factors
what are the 2 factors
- perpetrators motivation for violence
- whether violence is more frequent in a heterosexual relationship by male or female
- or perpetuated similar frequency with males & females
Johnson Typology
4 types of IPV
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1) Intimate terrorism
- mostly hetersex couples by male use of violence to control victim
- *most often take form of Walkers Cycle of Violence
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2) Violent Resistance
- most often heterosexual couples female as response violent behavior of partner
- motivation of female is not to be controlled
- may retaliate or defend self
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3) Mutual Violent Control
- both people try to gain control of relationship
- least common
-
4) Situational Couple Violence
- can be male or female
- one sided or both sided
- mild to severe
- situationally provoked argument escalates to verbal or physical aggression
- desire to control situation not relationship
- most common
Child Maltreatment
-
Neglect most common
- followed by physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse
- ↑risk with parents who experienced maltreatment
- ↓SES, dependent &/or aggressive parental personality & parental experience of intimate partner violence (IPV)
- children at higher roles when living with stepparent or single parent homes
Child Maltreatment
Consequences
Child Sexual Abuse
betrayal trauma theory
Short term
Long term
- Child Sexual Abuse (CSA)
- victim gender, relationship with perpetrator & nature of abuse
- Betrayal trauma theory
- sexual abuse by a known person/family member worse mental health outcome than less familiar or by a stranger
- Short term
- females -depression & internalizing behaviors
- males -conduct problems, aggression, & other externalizing behaviors
- Long term
- both genders experience mental health issues for life
- mental issues is worse if sex abuse is by families vs stronger or less familiar
- duration, the severity of abuse, outcomes, if it involves force or penetration also can play part
Daycare
- ↑ behavior problems
- ↑cognitive & learning skills & some skills
- attachment security remains relatively consistent
- quality of parental bond is more important than if child attends daycare
Cultural Socialization
parents practice teaching
positive outcomes
- parents practice to teach child about
- heritage,
- cultural customs tradition
- instill ethnic pride
- these things include children aware of how to hands prejudice & discrimination
- the positive outcome includes development of positive self-esteem, self-concept, & ethical racial identity
- ↑academic achievement, & motivation
- ↓externalizing & internalizing behavior problems
Cultural Socialization
Teacher Expectations
self-fulfilling prophecy
Teacher interaction with students
- teacher expectations
- can be a self-fulfilling prophecy
- teachers may treat children they are told are bloomers differently than others
- Teachers Interactions w/students
- Elementary→Graduate school
- teachers call on male students ↑
- they give males ↑praise, feedback and encourage them to learn
- Elementary→Graduate school
- can be a self-fulfilling prophecy