Unit+7+Developmental+Psychology+Review+Page

The format of the test will be 20 multiple choice, matching or other objective quesitons and 2 short answer questions worth 20 points each.


 * **Stage Theory** || **Continuom Theory** ||
 * * Big developmental milestones || * Can take steps forwards and backwards
 * Explains individuals ||


 * Erickson:**
 * Neofreudian
 * Social relationships=defining force (1st with parents)
 * Do not stop development after childhood
 * [[image:http://www.electrical-res.com/EX/10-19-11/ericksone28099s-psychosocial-stages.jpg width="484" height="563" align="left" caption="erikson stages of development"]]

Erikson's stages of development lead into each other ex. need to solve identity crisis before we can move onto intimacy, which involves caring about another's aspirations as much as our own 1. gender roles -typically learned from parents, internalized by the way parents play 2. sexual identity - figure out who you are attracted to, set up for final stage of attachment (**P**artner)
 * things we learned as a child are transferred into adult world --> then can move out of adolescence into early adulthood / intimacy

at 8 weeks: develops me vs. not me (before that, assume everything is for you, part of your world) -Very strong bonds we form with other individuals that often last our whole life -PPP (parents, peers, partners) -Studied monkey's immune system -Took away from mom -Monkey just had blanket+bottle in cage -Took blankets to clean cages and monkeys would flip out -Monkey chooses blanket over food -Contact comfort -Go to our moms because they are warm and soft -Strange situation study Four aspects of the child's behavior are observed: -Kids have 1 of 3 attachments
 * Physical Development**
 * Cognotive Development(how thinking changes)**
 * Social Development**
 * Personality Development**
 * Moral Development**
 * Piaget's theory of cognitive Development:** Children are not mini adults, we all go through a process of assimilation and acomindation
 * 4 Stages:**
 * Sensorimotor Stage (birth-2yrs):** Child begins to interact with enviroment, present
 * Preoperational Stage (2-6/7):** Child begins to represent world symbolicallly, bigger always better, animism, ego-centric thinking, failure of conservation test
 * Concrete Operational Stage (7-11/12):** Child learns rule of conservation, likes rules and classification, theory of mind (begin to understand that people see the world from different perspectives)
 * Formal Operational Stage (12+):** Hypothetical thinking, symbolic thinking, abstract thinking, future
 * Attachment Theory:**
 * Freud: C**upboard theory-attachment to mom-breastfed
 * John Bowbly:** Moms serve important role in social relationships
 * Harry Harlow:**
 * Mary Ainsworth:**
 * 1) Parent and infant are introduced to the experimental room.
 * 2) Parent and infant are alone. Parent does not participate while infant explores.
 * 3) Stranger enters, converses with parent, then approaches infant. Parent leaves inconspicuously.
 * 4) First separation episode: Stranger's behavior is geared to that of infant.
 * 5) First reunion episode: Parent greets and comforts infant, then leaves again.
 * 6) Second separation episode: Infant is alone.
 * 7) Continuation of second separation episode: Stranger enters and gears behavior to that of infant.
 * 8) Second reunion episode: Parent enters, greets infant, and picks up infant; stranger leaves inconspicuously.
 * 1) The amount of exploration (e.g. playing with new toys) the child engages in throughout.
 * 2) The child's reactions to the departure of its caregiver.
 * 3) The stranger anxiety (when the baby is alone with the stranger).
 * 4) The child's reunion behavior with its caregiver.