Week 11 Flashcards
- A “gold standard” assessment of attachment in young children (3-5-yr
olds) that involves four episodes: separation from parents, reunion, second separation, and second reunion. (Cassidy & Marvin, 1992) - 5-min separation
- No stranger
- 4 Categories
- The Preschool Attachment Classification System (PACS)
- Secure
Insecure avoidant
Insecure
ambivalent/dependent
Insecure disorganized
(IDENTICAL TO MARY AINSWORTHS ATTACHMENTS STYLES / STRANGE SITUATION
Attachment & Quality of Parenting
High-quality mother-child interactions (i.e., mother’s sensitivity) are
associated with secure attachment in 3-year-olds (Moss et al., 2004)
Mothers who support children’s autonomy in problem-solving and exploratory behaviors have first graders with fewer attention and
behavior problems (Russell, Lee, Spieker, & Oxford, 2016)
Peers and Friends:
Peer contact ____, and adult contact ____ over the course of childhood
increases
decreases
Parten (1932) classified 6 play
activities of preschoolers
1) Unoccupied play
2) Solitary play
3) Onlooker play
4) Parallel play
5) Associative play
6) Cooperative play
Play Activities (Parten, 1932):
- Toddlers / Infants primarily engage in ____
- Young children primarily engage in ____
- Parallel Play
- Cooperative Play
Types of Aggression
- Instrumental aggression
- Hostile aggression
- Relational aggression
Harm as a means
to achieve a specific goal (mainly in toddlers)
Instrumental aggression
Actions with the intention to harm (increase in toddlers before
decline in young children)
Hostile aggression
Overt Agression is a form of hostile agression
Non-physical aggression (i.e., hurting social relationships or
status). (Continues throughout childhood and
adolescence)
Relational aggression
Gender and Aggression
▪Boys: Overt aggression
(physical/verbal).
▪Girls: Relational aggression
Family Context of Social Skills & Aggression
Parental sensitivity = children’s social competence
Household chaos & media violence
◦ heightened aggression in children
◦ Causal relationship? A review of 101 studies showed a
minimal effect of playing violent or nonviolent video
games on children’s aggression (Ferguson, 2015)
Corporal punishment: purposeful use of punishment to cause physical pain/discomfort
◦ heightened aggression in children
◦ Why?
Purposeful use of punishment to cause physical pain/discomfort
Corporal punishment
Corporal punishment on children leads to
heightened agression
WHY?
(because behaviour is negatively reinforced)
(ie; Mary teases her brother John, John makes her stop teasing by
yelling at her. Johns yelling takes away (negative reinforcment) teasing, behaviour, showing john that yelling works)
A set of principles and ideals that helps an individual in
- ________: distinguishing right from wrong
- ________: acting on this distinction
- ________: feel pride in good conduct and guilt/shame due to bad conduct
Morality
the ability to distinguish right from wrong
Moral reasoning (cognitive)
the ability to act on a moral distinction
Moral Behaviour (Behavioural)
the ability to feel pride in good conduct and guilt/shame due to bad conduct
Moral affects (emotional)
Cognitive Component of Morality
Moral reasoning (cognitive)
Behavioural Component of Morality
Moral Behaviour (Behavioural)
Emotional Component of Morality
Moral affects (emotional)
internalization of
moral standards
Moral maturity
MORALITY THEORY:
Psychoanalytic Theory (Emotional)
Freud
ID: instinctual and biological drive
Superego (3-6 yrs): internalized moral standards (moral maturity)
Evaluation:
Captures child’s desires and societal norms
Ignored cognition
MORALITY THEORY:
Cognitive Developmental View (Cognitive)
Piaget’s stages of moral development
➢ Morality of Constraint ( < 7 years): moral
absolute, consequence > motive
➢ The transitional period (7/8-10 yrs)
➢ Autonomous morality (moral relativism,
>=11/12 years): relative rules, motives >
consequence
Kohlbberg’s stages of moral development
Hypothetical moral dilemmas
The issues involved in moral
judgments
Rationale/reasoning behind
decisions
Two Theories of Cognitive Developmental Morality
Piaget’s stages of moral development
Kohlbberg’s stages of moral development
Heinz’s dilemma
Heinz’s wife is near death, might be
cured by a new drug that costs
$2,000. Heinz only collected $1,000
and the druggist refused to sell the
drug. Heinz desperately broke into the
drug store. Should Heinz have done
that? Why and why not? (Kohlberg,
1969)
Kohlberg’s 3 Stages of Moral Development
- Preconvential
- Conventional
- Post-Conventional
Kohlbberg’s stages of moral development (explanation)
▪ Stages in the same order, differ
in the final stage.
▪ Cognitive development
determines progress
Kohlbberg’s stages of moral development:
Preconventional Stage 1 and 2:
Stage 1. Punishment & Obedience
Stage 2. Naïve Hedonism