PSYCH 250 Flashcards
What are 3 reasons as to why we should study child development?
- To improve ones own child-rearing
- To help society promote the well-being of children in general
- To better understand human nature.
What are two positive ways to approach your child’s bad behaviour?
- Using sympathy
2. By helping them find alternative ways to express their anger
What did Plato believe in regards to child development?
- longterm welfare of society depended on the proper raising of children
- view the rearing of boys especially challenging for parents
- emphasized self-control and discipline as the most important goal of education
- believed children have innate knowledge
What did Aristotle believe in regards to child development?
- longterm welfare of society depended on proper raising of children
- believed discipline was necessary, but more concentrated on fitting child-rearing to the needs of individual children
- believed all knowledge comes from experience
- believe that an infants mind is a “tabula rasa”
What does tabula rasa mean?
- means blank slate
- Aristotle used this to describe infants mind
What is a genome?
Is each person’s or organisms complete set of hereditary information
Define epigenetics:
Is the study of stable changes in gene expression that are mediated by the environment
Define methylation:
A biochemical process that reduces expression of a variety of genes and is involved in regulating reactions to stress
What is a stage theory?
Is approaches that propose that development involves a series of discontinuous, age-related phases
What percent of all siblings (including fraternal twins) share and differ in their genes?
50/50
Define Internal Validity:
Is the degree to which effects observed within experiments can be attributed to the factor that the researcher is testing
Define external validity:
Is the degree to which results can be generalized beyond the particulars of the research
What are 3 ways researchers can collect data on children?
- Interviews
- Naturalistic observations
- Structured observations
What is a structured interview?
Is where all participants are asked the same set of questions
What is a clinical interview?
Is where questions are adjusted in accordance with the answers the interviewee provides
Define Structured Observation:
- where researchers design a setting that will elicit behaviour that is relevant to their hypothesis and then observe the differences
- advantage: it excludes a vast number of environmental variables as the setting is exactly the same for all participants
What is the direction-of-causation problem?
Is the concept that a correlation between two variables may stem from both being influenced by some third variable
What is the third-variable problem?
Concept that a correlation between two variables may stem from both being influence by some third variable
What is a microgenetic design?
Is a method of study in which the same children are studied repeatedly over a short period
What action has been known to be one of the earliest signs of a child understanding another’s mind?
Pointing or responding to pointing
What percent of parents still spank their children?
50-66% of parents still spank their children
What did John Locke believe in regards to child development?
- He saw children as tabula rasa’s
- advocated first installing discipline and then gradually increasing the child’s freedom (this is a nurture perspective)
How did Jean-Jacques Rousseau view child development?
-argued that parents and society should give maximum freedom from the beginning (nature perspective)
Describe Darwin’s theory of evolution :
- developed baby biography (diary) as a method of studying children
- this theory still influences research in modern child development in which he attempts to understand where human capacities come from
Key points to Alison Gopnik’s “why do babies think” video:
- a long time ago people believed babies were irrational and completely unaware of others
- with experiment an 18 month old baby was able to understand others dislikes and likes and give them what they want (fishy crackers over broccoli) where a 15 month old couldn’t distinguish which one the researcher wanted
- she uses one example as in how crows are smarter than chickens because chickens develop one skill and mature very quickly where a crow isn’t specifically good at anything but experiences a long childhood which is why researchers believe they are so adaptive
- she states her belief of children being more conscious than adults
- states that babies aren’t bad at paying attention but rather bad at NOT paying attention as they are absorbing so much new information at one time
From Alison Gopnik’s video what is the evolutionary relevance of childhood?
- is the chicken vs. Crow debate as the crow experiences a longer childhood and therefore results in being more adaptive than a chicken who matures quickly with knowledge of one particular skill
How much longer does a chimpanzee spend in the prenatal stage than humans?
A whole year longer
In Alison Gopnik’s video what is the developmental relevance of childhood?
- learn the skills necessary for certain ages and how to survive
- to understand the way we think we need to study our development within experience and skills
From Alison Gopnik’s video what are some insights we have learned about child development over the last 30 years?
- children are not bad at paying attention they are bad at NOT paying attention
- children use to be thought of as completely irrational and unaware of others but in all reality are aware of others wants and dislikes at 18 months
- that babies are perspective takers and try to assist you
- that you need to think about children in the way you want them to behave.
What are some complications with studying childhood development?
- children are naive and impressionable
- relies mostly on observation and therefore interpretation
- with wanting to please children may not know right from wrong
- BABIES CANT TALK.
- you need parental consent
- small sample sizes
- don’t know what occurs between tests
- children will react differently with a researcher than with their parents
- longitude research can be very expensive
- children develop at different paces
Define epigenesis:
Is the emergence of new structure and functions in the course of development
-purpose by Aristotle in the 4th century
What is the order of the biological side to development?
- Cell division
- Cell migration
- Cell differentiation
- Death
Define the cell division process:
- a.k.a Mitosis
- cell division occurs approx. 12. Hours after fertilization and results in two identical daughter cells
Define the cell migration process:
Is the movement of newly formed cells away from their point of origin
Define the cell differentiation process:
-after several cell divisions, the cells start to specialize in terms of both structure and function
Define the death process:
-is the selective death of certain cells
- also known as Apoptosis
Ex] death of cells in between the ridges in the hand plate that create our fingers
What are factors thar help determine which type of cell the given stem will become?
- Which genes are “switched” or expressed
- Cells location
- Hormones
Define what fraternal twins are:
- twins that result when two eggs happen to be released into the Fallopian tube at the same time and are fertilized by two different sperm
- have only 1/2 their genes in common
Define what identical twins are:
- twins that result from the splitting in half of the zygote, resulting in each of the two resulting zygotes having the exact same set of genes
What is the neural tube?
-is a groove formed in the top layer of differentiated cells in the embryo that eventually becomes the brain and the spinal cord
What is the amniotic sac?
- is a transparent, fluid-filled membrane that surrounds and protects the fetus
- because of this fluid the fetus is able to exercise its tiny, weak muscles relatively un effected by the effects of gravity
What is cephalocaudal development ?
-pattern of growth in which areas near the head develop earlier than areas further than the head
What is one of the earliest signs of distinct movement?
Hiccups
Define habituation:
- is a simple form of learning that involves a decrease in response to repeated or continued stimulation
What is a teratogen?
-is an external agent that can cause damage or death during prenatal development
Describe rapid-eye movement (REM):
- is an active sleep state characterized bt rapid eye movement under closed lids
- associated with dreaming within adults
- 50% of newborns total sleep tome and this decreases to 20% by 3-4 Years of age
Describe non-REM sleep:
-a quite or deep state characterized by the absence of motor activity or eye movements and regular/ slow brain waves, breathing and heart rate
What does Colic mean?
Excessive or inconsolable crying by a young infant for no apparent reason
Describe the features of a low birth weight (LBW) baby:
- has a birth weight of less than 2500 grams
- slightly more than 6% of all Canadian newborns are LBW
Define preformationsim:
-suggested miniature, preformed humans lodged inside mtoher’s egg or father’s sperm
What are gametes produced through and how many chromosomes do they contain
- produced through meiosis
- contain 23 chromosomes
Between what ages are males more likely to die than females?
15-29 years old
Describe the Travis-Willard hypothesis:
- belief that there are evolutionary mechanisms that influence male and female numbers
- believed that in bad times, it pays to have daughters over sons- as a female can always find a mate
- but in good times it’s better to have sons over daughters as mothers can invest in and produce high quality offspring
What 2 things can animal models help us enhance the understanding of human development on?
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
2. Existence of fetal learning (also helping the dismantling of the term “instinct”)
What is the time length and developements within each prenatal stage:
Embryo: 4 weeks: primitive heart beating and circulating of blood + arm and leg buds
Fetus:5 1/2- 8 1/2 weeks: differentiation begins in nose, mouth and palate
Fetus: 9 weeks: heart achieves basic heart structure + spine and ribs are visible + major division of the brain
Fetus: 16 weeks: movement increases with some reflexes + external genitalia is developed
Fetus: 18 weeks: greasy coating to protect skin develops
Fetus: 20 weeks: more time with head positioned downwards+ facial expressions components are present +weight gain
Fetus: 28 weeks: brain and lung development increases+ eye can experience REM movement + weight is tripled
When do spontaneous movements begin to occur ?
5 weeks after conception
What does swallowing promote?
- normal palate development
- helps in digestion system development
When does vestibular experience function occur?
Before birth
When do rest activity cycles emerge?
-emerge at 10 weeks and become stable in second half of pregnancy
what can babies learn before they are born?
-what their mothers voices sounds like
-learn the tones of the language most often spoke
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How many fetuses do not make it to birth?
- 1/3 don’t survive till birth
- 2/3 of those rare are miscarriages before the pregnancy was clinically detectable
What is the prenatal sensitive period?
3-9 weeks when major organs are developing
Define sensation:
Is the processing of basic information from the external world by the sensory receptors in the sense organs
What are cones?
-light sensitive neurons tat are highly concentrated in the fovea (central region of the retina)
-involved in seein fine details and colour
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Describe object expansion:
-is a depth cue in which an object occluded increasingly more of the background, indicating that the object is approaching
What is binocular disparity?
Si the difference between the retinal image of an object in each eye that results in two slightly different signal being sent to the brain
Describe stereopsis:
Is the process by which the visual cortex combines the differing neural signals caused by binocular disparity, resulting in the perception of depth
Describe monocular depth cues:
-the perceptual cues of depth (such as relative size and interpretation) that can be precieved by one eye alone
Define intermodal perception
- the combining of information from two or more sensory systems
Describe the stepping reflex:
- a neonatal reflex in which an infant lifts first one leg and then the other in a coordinated pattern like walking
Describe affordances:
The possiblities for action offered by object and situations
Define classical-conditioning:
Is a form of learning that consists of associating an initially neutral stimulus that evokes a particular reflexive response
-first discovered by Ivan Pavlov within his dog experiments
Define operant conditioning:
-learning the relation between one’s own behaviour and the consequences that result from it
Define positive reinforcement :
- a reward that reliably follows a behaviour and increases the likelihood that the behaviour will be repeated
Describe the violation-of-expectancy procedure:
A procedure used to study infant cognition in which infants are shown an event that should evoke surprise of interest if it violates something the infant knows or assumes to be true.
What sense is least developed at birth?
Visual perception
At what age do infants have similar colour perception as adults?
4 months
At what age do infants recognize melodies over individual notes?
5 months
Why do movements decrease over the prenatal stages?
There is less room to move around
What are 3 reasons to study motor development:
- Used as a yardstick to see if infants are developing on time
- Motor behavior is integral to psychology
- Is related to perception and requires coordination
What are 3 adaptive reflexes infants have
- Rooting
- Swallowing
- Sucking
At what ages to babies start crawling, walking and climbing stairs?
- 10 months they begin to crawl
- 1 year they being walking
- 2 year they begin climbing stairs
What is the major challenge in developmental psychology?
BABIES CANT TALK
What is a rich interpretation?
Is an adult like interpretation
What is a lean like interpretation?
Is an animal-like interpretation with less cognitive attributions
What 4 things do we share a portion of our genes with?
- bears
- barnacles
- beans
- bacteria
Define genotype:
Is the genetic material an individual inherits
Define phenotype:
Is an observable expression of the genotype, including both body characteristics and behaviour
What’s so chromosome?
Molecules of DNA that transmit genetic information
What is DNA:
- deoxyribonucleic acid
- molecules that carry all the biochemical instructions involved in the formation and functioning of an organism
What are genes:
- sections of chromosomes that are the basic unit of heredity in all living things
- make up only 2% of the human genome
What is an alleles?
- two or more different forms of a gene
- 1/3 of human genes have two or more different forms
- they influence the same trait or characteristic, but contribute to different developmental outcomes
What does homozygous mean :
Having two of the same allele for a trait
What does heterozygous mean:
Having two different alleles for a trait
What is polygenetic inheritance?
Is inheritance in which traits are governed by more than one gene
What is Phenyiketonuria (PKU)?
Is a disorder related to a defective recessive gene on chromosome 12 that prevents metabolism of phenylalanine
What is a cell body:
Contains the basic biological material that keeps the neuron functioning
What is a dendrite:
Neural fibres that receive input from other cells and conduct it toward the cell body in the form of electrical impulses
What is the cerebral cortex:
-the “grey matter” of the brain that plays a primary role in what is though to be human like functioning such as seeing, hearing, and writing
What is the occipital lobe?
-lobe of the cortex that is primarily;y involved in processing visual information
What is the temporal lobe?
- is the lobe of the cortex that is associated with memory, visual recognition, and the processing of emotion and auditory information
What is the parietal lobe:
- the lobe of the cortex that governs spatial processing and intergrated sensory input with information stored in memory
What is the frontal lobe?
- the lobe in the cortex that is associate with organizing behaviour
- this lobe is thought to be responsible for the human ability to plan ahead
What is the corpus callosum?
Is a dense tract of nerve fibres that enable the tw hemispheres of the brain to communicate
What is cerebral Lateralization?
-the specialization of the hemispheres of the brain for different modes of processing
What are event-related potentials? (ERP)
-changes in the brains lectern all activity that occur in response to the presentation of a particular stimulus
What is plasticity?
Is the capacity of the brain to be affected by experience
What is experience-expectancy plasticity?
- the process of which normal wiring of the brain is a result of experiences that every human who inhabits any normal environment will have
- benefit= fewer genes needed to be dedicated to normal developments
- downside= makes the brain more vulnerable as there is now an expectation and if that is not fulfilled damage may occur
What is experience-dependent plasticity?
- the process through which neural connections are created and recognized throughout life as a function of an individual’s experience
When is full height achieved for females and males?
Females= 15.5 years Males= 17.5 years
What is a secular trend?
These are marked changes in physical development that have occurred over generations
What are some critiques to the methodological critique?
- it is perceptual rather than conceptual
- is cross sectional vs. Longitudinal
- they use the “looking time” paradigm
Critiques of the conceptual view of development
- are they studying the same thing ?
- impose an adult view
- believe that the first observation of an action it the indication of mastery of a concept
What is empiricism?
- knowledge that comes from experience
What is nativism?
Knowledge that comes from inside
What’s is constructivism?
Knowledge that doesn’t come from either inside or outside but rather within interactions
What is the nominal fallacy?
-thinking you’ve explained a concept by identifying it
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What are some meta theoretical assumptions?
- philosophical assumptions on which theories are based
- includes dualist and cognitivist assumptions
- includes enactivism, interactivity, embodied cognition, situated cognition, relational constructivism
What is an example of probabilistic epigenesis?
- Gilber Gottlleb duck imperessions
- research showed how development actual functioned
- is a metatheoretical model of development
- no split between genes and environment
What is predetermine epigenesis?
- there is a split between environment and genes in order to have an interaction
- environment is thought to be a trigger
What is the developmental systems theory:
- broad theoretical perspective on development, heredity and evolution
- emphasizes that shared influences of genes, environment, and epigenetic factors: one is no more important than the other
Describe the reaction range model:
- developmental outcomes are predetermine by genetics
- says that environment is a trigger and that bounds of development are set by genes
What is the norm of reaction model?
- actual finding
- genetic difference in mice is only expressed under the same developmental conditions under which I was selected and only under this condition is development somewhat predictable
- environment is not a trigger but an ever-present co-creative factor in development
Describe the evolutionary theory:
- belief that genes and development are seperate
What des Neo-Darwinism focus on?
Adaptations via natural selection
What is the deterministic view?
- that genes determine environment
What are 3 reasons to study language?
- Interesting, important aspects of culture, practical implications
- Related to the nature of mind knowledge, meaning and thinking
- Evolution and human cognition
What were John Lockes beliefs?
- a common-sense view of language: words used for recording our though and communications of our thoughts to others
- nature of language and nature of mind
- believed that the way children learn words is through labeling
When does babbling occur?
Approx 6 months
Define canonical:
-repeated sounds of vowels and consonants
Define variegated:
These are more complex combos but still not conversations
At what age to words being to form
1 year
When does the holophrastic phase occur
- 10-18 months
- single worded phrases
When is it assumed that children know 200 hundred words?
By 2 years
What is telegraphic phase?
After 24 months and that is two worded phrases or more with no real meaning context
What are the 4 aspects to language?
- Phonology
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Pragmatic so
What are B.F. Skinners beliefs?
- tried to explain language in terms of behaviourist learning principles such as imitation or shaping
- associative chain theory: sentences that consist of associations between rival he words in the sentences
What were the beliefs of Noam Chomsky:
- he thought synaptic rules are neither learner or innate
- argues humans learn language because of an innate ability
- thinks kids grammar isn’t corrected by adults
What is positive evidence?
Everything a child hearts
What is negative evidence
-input about which utterances are ungrammatical
What is ethology?
- the study of organisms in their natural environment
What was Piaget about?
- developed the theory of cognitive development
- designed simple test to reveal cognitive abilities of children
- interested in the origins of knowledge
- believes knowledge is created in childhood and within actions
- his theory of knowledge is constructivism
- focused on two main things: adaptation and organization
Define assimilation:
- organism understands environment in terms of existing schemes
Define accommodation:
- schemes are general so they always need adjustment or accommodation when applied in a particular situation
What are the 4 stages Piaget believed to be part of development?
- Sensorimotor
- Pre operational
- Concrete operational
- Formal Operational
Describe Piaget Sensorimotor stage
- ages 0-2
- infants activities center on their own bodies
- early goals are concrete
- their intelligence is bound to their immediate perceptions and actions
Describe Piaget’s preoperational stage:
- ages 2-7
- main development of language and mental imagery
- symbolic representation occurs
Define egocentrism:
- assessed with Piaget’s mountains task
- this task is used to demonstrate the inability to coordinate perspectives
- assume others think and see what they see
Define Centration:
- conservation of length task
- children will focus on the stick you move
- mislead by the appearances
Describe Piaget’s concrete operational:
- ages 7-12
- begin to reason logically about concrete objects and events in this world
- overcome centration and understand reversibility
- limited knowledge t real objects – NO abstract thinking
Describe Piaget’s formal operations:
- ages 12+
- reason systematically
- think abstractly
- can create hypotheses
What are the criticisms of Piaget’s 4 stage theory of development?
- depict children’s thinking as being more consistent
- children’s exposure to the instruments used in tasks such as the beakers
- ## that he underestimates children’s abilities
What was Vygotsky all about?
- focused on social factors in development
- was interested in the social origins of mental factors
- interested in natural and cultural lines of development
- believes social interactions become the basis for thought
- believes in private speech
Describe private speech:
- when kids talk to themselves
- Piaget stated this was part of the pre-operational stage and he saw it as an immaturity of the mind
Describe a dyadic interaction:
- between the infant and parent OR infant and an object
- is face to face
Describe a Triachic interaction:
- between self, other and the world
- early form of communication
- shared engagements
What does social referencing mean?
- when a child looks a their parents face for direction
What are 4 things pointing can influence?
- Proto-imperative
- Proto- declarative
- Proto- informative
- Porto- Interrogative
What does proto- imperative mean?
-to request something
What does proto- declarative mean?
To direct attention
What does proto- informative mean?
To inform
What does proto- interrogative:
- means to ask questions
Why is pointing (joint attention) important?
- required for language and culture
- develops ability to share meanings based on the outside world without speaking
- pointing could represent a dividing line between humans and other apes
- lack of joint attention could be an early sign of autism
What was Tomasello all about:
- believes there are two lines of development (general primate and human unique)
- believes pointing is a priority socially in nature
- pointing social first and then becomes an individual thing
- experiments on infants at 12 months of age
What does Tomasello describe as a general primate:
- cognitive capacities and basic understanding of attention
What does Tomasello describe as “human unique”
- a motivation to share psychological state
What is object permanence:
- the knowledge that objects continue to exist even when they are out of view
A-not-B error:
- is the tendency to reach for a hidden object where it was last found rather than in the new location where it was last hidden
What is deferred imitation:
- the repetition of other poeple’s behaviour a substantially after it originally occured
What is inter-subjectivity?
- is the mutual understanding that people share during communication
Describe dynamic systems theory:
- A class of theories that focus on how change occurs over time in a complex different systems
- view children as ever-changing, well- integrated organisms
- actions are shaped by children’s remote and recent history
How does Freud define the ID?
- earliest and most primitive personality structure
- it occurs unconsciously
- operates with the goal of seeking instant gratification
Describe Freud’s Oral Stage:
- first stage
- occurring in the first year
- where primary source of satisfaction comes orally
How does Freud describe the ego:
- second of the personality structures to develop
- it is the rational, logical, problem solving component
What is Freud’s anal stage :
- second stage in Freud’s theory
- lasting from ages 1-3 approx
- primary source of pleasure is from defecation
What is Freud’s phailic stage?
- third stage
- ages 3-6
- sexual pleasure is focused on the genitalia
Describe Freud’s superego:
- third personality structure to develop
- consists of internalized moral standards
Describe the Oedipus complex:
- Freud’s term used to describe the conflict experienced by boys in the phailic period because of their sexual desire for their mother and their fear of retaliation by their father
Describe the Electra complex:
- Freud’s term for the conflict experienced by girls in the phailic stage when they develop unacceptable romantic feelings for their father and see their mother as a rival
Describe the latency Period:
- fourth stage
- lasting from ages 6-12
- sexual energy gets channeled into socially acceptable activities
Describe the gentian stage:
- the fifth and final stage
- beginning in adolescence
- sexual maturation is complete and sexual intercourse becomes a major goal
What is intermittent reinforcement:
- inconsistent response to the behaviour of another person
Define what a concept is:
- organizes our experiences
- actually means of how we come to understand the world
At what age does the “baby’s are sophisticated video” say infants have a “naive psychology” that involves common sense levels of understanding of other people
Age 3
What is a Dyadic interaction?
- emotional exchanges
What is a Triachic interaction?
- pointing gestures
Describe what a “theory of mind” means:
- thinking about the social world
- understanding people in terms of thoughts, beliefs, desires, and intentions
Who was Decartes?
- believed in the separation of mind and body
- ## also that only you can know your own mind
By what age do children attribute mental states to others
Age 6
Describe the theory-theory and its criticism :
- theory that gives “theory of mind” it’s name
- Sees children as “child scientists”
- state children form a theory about their own mind and other minds
- provides a Causual-explanatory framework
-what exactly is a theory?
Describe the innate module theory and its criticism:
- is an evolutionary explanation
- belief that children are born with innate modules for computing mental states
- is a nativists point of view
- very deterministic
- assumption based
- biased point no perspective taking
Describe the stimulation theory and its criticism:
- children don’t need a “theory” because they have their own mind and can imagine themselves in another place
- does not explain knowledge base therefore maybe it is a mix of theories
- is introspection really possible if children don’t know about minds yet?
What are some facts from Dr. Lewkowics video
- Plato believed knowledge is innate
- Aristotle believed knowledge is acquired
- Dr. Lewkowics believes our brain combines our senses together to create information
- 8-10 months infants begin lip reading and babbling
- 12 months bilingual children will focus on the mouth as they are struggling to decide what language is what
- ## he believes knowledge is developmental
What are the 5 virtues Erikson describes?
- Trust vs. Mistrust (hope)- first year
- Autonomy vs. Doubt (will)- ages 1- 3 1/2
- Initiative vs. Guilt (purpose)- ages 4-6
- Industry vs. Inferiority (competence)- ages 6- puberty
- Identity vs. Role confusion (fidelity)- adolescence- early adulthood
Who was Watson?
- learning theorist
- founded behaviourism
- believed children’s development was determined by their social environment
- posited that learning through conditioning as the primary mechanism of development
- conducted the “little Albert experiment”
Who was skinner?
- focused on importance of attention as a powerful reinforcer
- highlight difficulty of extinguishing behaviour that has been intermittently reinforced
- led to a form of therapy known as behaviour modification
Who was Bandura?
- emphasizes observation of others and imitation
- “Bobo doll” experiment
- place more emphasis on the cognitive aspects of observational learning
- argued that child-environment influences operate in both directions
- believed in the importance of self-efficacy
Entity theory of intelligence:
Posits a response level of intelligence is fixed and un changeable
Incremental theory of intelligence:
- suggests intelligence can increase as a function of experience
Why are human brains so big?
- the larger the brain size of various primates, the longer the developmental period
- we don’t have an extra -uterine year
- this making adaption very easy for us
What age does Postman say is the age of adulthood? And why this age?
7-17
- age 7 is when children’s language is well developed
- Middle Ages lacked literacy and education so children and adults took in and understood the same amount of information
During what years did the idea of a childhood become more prominent?
1850’s- 1950’s
As the printing press created childhood as it gave a certain age kids were not aloud in factories at.
What are the 3 functions of attachment Bowlby and Ainsworth address?
- to maintain proximity and ensure survival
- to develop feelings
- to serve as a secure base for exploration
What are the 4 types of attachment?
- secure
- insecure avoidant
- ambivalent
- disorganized
Define the secure form of attachment
- children will react in exploring the room,
- making contact with their mom as a base
- if stranger enters the room and the mother leaves her the infant becomes distressed but easily made happy when mother comes back
Describe the insecure- avoidant attachment style:
- will explore the room without involving mom
- not wary with stranger or lack of mom
- not distressed when mother leaves infant with a stranger
Describe the ambivalent attachment style:
- stay close to mom
- wary of strangers
- distressed without mom
- did not greet mom when she came back into the room
Describe the disorganized attachment style:
- combination of avoidant and ambivalent traits
- inconsistent
- seem to want to approach mom but also show some fear
When is the sensitive period for a child’s attachment?
During the first 6 months
When does fear around strangers occur?
6-7 months
What are the 6 primary emotions
- happiness
- saddness
- Fear
- Anger
- Surprise
- Disgust
What did Thomas and Chess discover in their New York Longitudinal study?
- 40% are easy babies
- 10 % difficult babies
- 15% slow to warm up babies
- and the rest did not fit into a category
What is rumination:
- a perspective focus on ones own negative emotions and on their causes and consequences, without engaging in efforts to improve ones situation
What Is co-rumination?
- extensively discussion and self disclosing emotional problems with another person
What is morality?
- is considered as the set of customs and values that are embraced by a cultural group to guide social conduct
How did Freud, Kolhberg/ Piaget, and other behaviourists see morality?
- Freud: saw moral development as an original sin
- Kohlberg/ Piaget: saw moral development as innate purity where the morality they start out with is not their own
- Behavioursit: see moral development as a blank slate
At what age are infants able to recognize the need for help?
At 18 months, where at 14 months they are unable to
During the video of Frans de Waal what did he believe were the pillars of morality?
- reciprocity (fairness)
- empathy (compassion)
Who was Kohlberg?
- inspired by Piaget
- focused on moral reasoning
- against character education
- presented poeple with a series of hypothetical dilemmas
- he was concerned with the reasoning behind people’s decision not just the decisions
- 6 stages of development
What are Kohlbergs 6 stages?
- Obedience And punishment orientation
- Individualism and exchange
- Good interpersonal relationships
- Maintaining the social social
- Social contract and individual rights
- Universal principles
What are the differences between Kohlberg and Piaget
- Kohlberg was more about moral reasoning as role taking or the application of moral principles wher Piaget is more about relationships and perspective taking
- Piaget believed moral thinking is conscious realization of moral activity where action is first then thought but Kohlberg thought thought occured first then action
What are altruistic motives?
- helping others for reasons that initially include empathy or sympathy for others and at later ages the desire to act in ways consistent with ones own conscious and moral principles
Describe authoritative parenting
- a parenting style that is high in demanding mess and supportiveness.
- These parents set clear standards and limits for their children and are firm about enforcing them, whil at the same time allowing their children considerable autonomy within those limits,
- Are attentive/ responsive
- Respect + consider child’s perspective
- Strict
- Not over bearing
- Clear standards
- Firm with enforcment
- High demanding
- High supportiveness
- Allow kids within limitations their autonomy
- Take children’s perspective
- Children behaviour
- More popular
- More self assured
- Competent
- Control their own behaviour
- Low in problem behvaiour
Describe authoritarian parenting:
- a parenting style that is high in demanding press and low in responsiveness
- Are unresponsive to their children’s needs and tend to enforce their demands by parental power
- Orientated towards obedience and authority
- Expect children to comply with their demands without question or explanation
- High in demanding
- Low in supportiveness
- Exercise of parental power and the use of threats and punishments
- Not too much of perspective taking
- Orientated towards obedience and authority
- Expect children to comply without question or explanation
- Children behaviour
- Low in social and academic competence in childhood and adolescence
- Tend to be unhappy and unfriendly
Describe the permissive parenting style:
- a parenting style that is high in responsiveness but low in demandingness
- Responsive to children’s needs
- Do not require children to regulate themselves or an act in appropriate or mature ways
- Low in demandingness
- High in supportiveness
- Responsive to children’s needs
- Don’t regulate children’s behaviour or require mature behvaiour
- Children behaviour
- Impulsive
- Lacking self control
- Low in school achievement
- Engage in more school misconduct and drug us than those with authoritative parents
Describe the rejecting- neglecting parenting style:
- a disengaged parenting style that is low in both responsiveness and demandingness
- Do not set limits for or monitor their children’s behaviour
- Not supportive
- They tend to be focused on their own needs rather than their children’s needs
- Low in supportiveness
- Low in demands
- Tend to focus on their own needs
- Don’t set limits for or monitor thier children’s behavior
- Childs behaviour
- Have attachment problems
- Poor peer relationships
- Tend to show antisocial. Behaviour
- Poor self regulations
- Internalizing problems
- Substance abuse
- Risky sexual behvaiour
- Low academic and social competence
What are the two main functions of families?
- to ensure survival of offspring
- to provide children means to acquire the skills to be economically successful
Describe developmental systems theory:
- individually based
- genes play the largest role but not only thing
Describe the bioecological model:
- individual in relation to various levels of social and ecological factors
- members influence eachother directly
- dynamics change as children grow
What are the 2 important dimensions of parenting styles?
- Degree of parental control
2. Demandingness
What are some of the economic family changes in Canada?
- age at first marriage
- Parental work outside the home
- Age at birth of first child
- Divorce rate
- Number of out-of-wedlock- births
- Rate of one-parent and step families
- childbearing in adolescence has declined signifificantly in Canada since 1974
What percent of mothers with children under the age of 6 were employed in a 2011 study?
56%
What percent of mothers with children ages 6-17 were employed in a 2011 study?
76%
