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| Study of psychological growth, change, and consistency through the lifespan |
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| What abilities does an infant possess |
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Reflexes
taste, visual, and auditory Preferences
social abilities
maturational processes |
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| baby monkies clung to the warm cloth mother and only went to wire mother for food |
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Attachment Styles
Strange situation |
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| need for bond of attachment is as basic in the infant as the need for nourishment |
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Attachment Styles
Secure attachment
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upset when mother leaves
happy and calms upon reunion |
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Indifferent when mother leaves
indifferent upon reunion |
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| Anxious0-ambivalent attachment |
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panics when mother leaves
angry and clingy upon reunion |
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inconsistent when mother leaves
dazed and confused upon reunion |
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Parenting Styles
Authoritarian |
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cold and distant
arbitrary rules
demand obedience
use punishment or threats
more rebellious teens and lower intellectual performance |
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Parenting Styles
Permissive
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Warm and communavative but set and enforce few rules
children less mature, more mpulsive and demanding, less self controlled and self reliant |
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neglectful, ignore children unconcerned
children more impulsive, less mature and socially competent
more drinking problems and bad decisions |
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Parenting Styles
Authoritative
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warm and supportive, encourage open communication high expectations and firm limits
children more confident, mature, self-reliant, enthusiastic, self-controlled
kids are better off
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| fitting realities into existing schemas |
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| mental structures that organize our knowledge and change as we interact with the environment |
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altering a schema to make it compatible with reality
a four legged can be a cat or dog |
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Piaget's stages of cognitive development
Sensorimotor Stage |
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Birth - 2 years
understanding of world through senses, motor responses, physical exploration |
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Piaget's stages of cognitive development
Preoperational Stage |
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2-7 years
use of mental representations and language
symbolic activities- one thing stands for another
tranductive reasoning- reasoning from appearances
egocentrism- inability to see the world from other's perspective |
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Piaget's stages of cognitive development
Concrete Operational Stage |
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7-11 years
mental operations and use of concepts |
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| Despite Change in appearance, amounts remains the same |
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| not able to perform mental operations in abstract situations |
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Piaget's stages of cognitive development
Formal Operations Stage |
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abstract reasoning and logical operations
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Erikson's Psychosocaial stages
Trust vs. Mistrust |
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| mother's sensitivity and reliability leads to trust and tolerance of absence/frustration |
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Erikson's Psychosocaial stages
Autonomy vs shame and doubt
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| takinga stand, holding and letting go |
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Erikson's Psychosocaial stages
Initiative vs. guilt
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| Walking and carrying out one's own intentions while accepting and internalizing prohibitions |
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Erikson's Psychosocaial stages
Industry Vs. Inferiority
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| Producing workds of one's own that have value |
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Erikson's Psychosocaial stages
Identity vs. Role Confusion |
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Physiological revolution of puberty
identity crisis
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| identity is (pre)formed without a crisis |
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| no firm identity, not exploring |
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| formation of identity through resolutino of crisis |
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| being nice, gaining approval |
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| Law and order orientation |
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| doing one's duty by following society's laws |
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| social contract orientatino |
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| laws should express majority will, promote social welfare, protect individual |
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| ethical principle orientation |
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| universal ethical principles supersede laws; following conscience may require violating laws |
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| first a stimulus provokes a physiological response then an emotional response |
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| stimulus provokes a physiological and emotional response at the same time |
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stimulus provokes two different arousals
which lead into the same emotional response |
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facial expressions influence how we feel
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