The Rest of Developmental Psych and Adolescence/Adulthood (Unit 11) Flashcards
Surrogate Mother Experiments:
Harry Harlow
Strong attachment is due to ________ _______:
Contact Comfort
Human newborns and infants need physical touch and nurturance:
Contact Comfort
Parenting Styles by:
Diana Baumrind
Top-down parenting approach in which parents establish the rules, expect obedience, and strictly punish; seen as firm, emotionally cold, punitive:
Authoritarian Style
Give children considerable freedom to make their own decisions, often seek friend relationship and set few boundaries:
Permissive Style
Parents are authority figures but they are willing to listen to input from their children, respect their basic rights, and explain rules and decisions they set down; this is the most successful style in terms of the long-term social functioning of children:
Authoritative Style
Give children considerable freedom to make their own decisions because they are less engaged in the upbringing due to not living with child all the time, work too much, too concerned with own life:
Rejecting-Neglecting Style
Characteristics of Birth Order by:
Alfred Adler
-Selfish, spoiled, emotionally indifferent
-Extremely reliable and conscientious
-Intellectual, studious, serious
-Critical and perfectionist
Only Child
-Conscientious and driven
-Overachiever - achieve higher scholastically
-Serious, no surprises
-More sensitive to acceptance or rejection
-Does/gets more work
-Grows up fast
-Disciplined more
First Born
-Very loyal, secretive, mysterious
-Negotiates and peacemaker
-Social: Lots of friends but feels no special place in family
-Seems easy going but hides feelings
-Copes in unpleasant situations
-Can be unpredictable
-Influenced by preceding sibling
Middle Child
-Fun-loving, good time
-Tolerant, sees others point of view
-Doesn’t get hurt easily and gets over it faster
-Personal, affectionate, caring
-Impulsive and rebellious, moody
-Can be dependent at times
Last Born
Transition period from childhood to adulthood:
Adolescence
Period of sexual maturation when a person becomes capable of reproduction:
Puberty
Body structures that make reproduction possible:
Primary Sex Characteristics
Ovaries:
Female
Menarche:
First Menstrual Cycle
Testes:
Male
Spermarche:
First ejaculation
Nonreproductive sexual characteristics:
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Breasts and Hips:
Female
Voice quality, growth spurt, strength, and body hair:
Male
Increase in ______ with family members caused by a search for identity, attempts to be independent:
Arguing
State of self-absorption in which teen views world from their POV leading to being critical to authority figures, unwilling to accept criticism, and quick to fault others:
Adolescent Egocentrism
Return to live with parents after leaving home (typically economic reasons):
Boomerang Children
Culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retrement:
Social Clock
Time of great struggle, regret. or feeling struck down by life:
Midlife Crisis
Stages of Death and Dying by:
Elisabeth Kulder-Ross
What are the stages of death and dying?
- Denial
- Anger and Resentment
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance/Understanding
A philosophy of treatment of dying that is warm, personalized, and informed about the psychological processes which impact those facing imminent death:
Hospice Movement
