Social/Emotional Development Flashcards
Ethological (Evolutionary, Biological) Perspective
- Social development associated w/ built in mechanisms for species survival
- gradual adapatation
Environmental Perspective
• Socialization emphasized – process by which society models beliefs, expectations & behaviors.
Cognitive Developmental Perspective
• Focuses on how children cognitively represent their relationship with 1 another
• Internal Cognitive models
- mental representations of parent (child)
- used to predict how the other part of dyad will behave based on past behavior & culture
Vygotsky Perspective
• Focuses on Apprenticeship (learner) relationships, community members & culture.
Emotional Development
- an internal reaction or feeling that is positive or negative
- can be expressed (stated, facial response)
- can be reflected through readiness for action (heart rate, pulse, sweating)
Affect
- Outward expressions of emotions
* Facial expressions, notion, gestures
Expressions of emotions: At birth
- Distress
- Interest
- disgust
Expressions of emotions: 1st 12 months
- Smiling (2-3 months)
- Laugh (1st 3 months)
- Fear response (by 7 months)
- self - conscious emotion (12-18 months)
Social referencing: 8-9 months
• infants tend to refer to parents for guidance when uncertain how to respond to an unfamiliar perrson or object
Social referencing: by 12 months
- use of social referencing to regulate behavior
* socialization/training
Emotional Regulation
- Face to face interactions
* Self-soothing (e.g - toothing toys, sucking thumb, comforting object)
Stranger anxiety
- Around 7-8 months
* Fear of unfamiliar people
Seperation anxiety
- Starts @ 9 months & peaks at around 12 months
* Separation from person they are attached to, which can cause stress
Preschool, effortful control, delay of gratification
- Marshmallow study
- Children who were able to wait = higher academic ability & higher social competence, higher executive functioning & showed control.
Autism
• Severe & pervasive impairment in several areas of development •3 Components 1. Language 2. Social 3. Repetitive Behaviors
What is the age of onset for autism?
- Usually evident w/ in the first few years of life
- symptoms by age 3
- Median age diagnosis = 4 -5 years old
Autism & language
- 40% of children w/ ASD don’t talk at all
- 25-30% of children w/ autism have some words @ 12-18 months of age & then loose them
- other children may speak but not until later on in their childhood
- 1 in 68 in U.S have ASD