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| monkeys clung to the soft mother and only when they needed food they went to the wire mother |
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| fundamental human need, deep emotional bond that infant develops with its primary caregiver |
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| primates are looking 4 pleasure by close physical contact to primary caregiver |
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adviodent-baby treats stranger like caregiver
anxious/ambivalent-resist contact with caregiver when they come back |
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| what can cause insecure attatchment? |
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abandonment and deprivation
abusive parents
genetics-difficult to get attatched b/c of genes
change-shift from secure attatchment to insecure. may not attatch to anyone, may be too attatched to another caregiver |
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| cross cultural phenomenon |
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us-independent from the beg, as much as possible, sleep in cribs
other-dependent, lets them sleep in bed with them |
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| what are the reflexes of a new born baby? |
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rooting
sucking
swallowing
moro
babinski-run finger down foot and toes fan out
grasp
sleeping |
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| results from daycare study |
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| looked at 1000 children over 30hrs, and for 10 hrs, no children differed in attatchment. children in higher quality daycare scored better on social, language, and cognitive measures |
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| language acquisition device |
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| according to many psychologists, an innate mental module that allows young children to develop language if they are exposed to an adequate sampling of conversation |
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| paiget's cognitive developmental theory |
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| consits of mental adaptations to new observations and experiences |
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| beliefs and expectations about categories of things or people |
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| take in new info and putting it into existing schema |
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| modifying existing schema to fit in new information |
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| kohlberg's moral developmental stages |
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preconventional level-very young age
conventional level-10 or 11 yrs old. most adults stay in conventional level
postconventional level-ppl realize some laws are immoral |
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| what stage of kohlberg do most adults stay? |
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| conventional level-they believe law has to be followed |
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| criticism we dicussed in class about kohlberg's theory? |
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| moral reasoning is often inconsistent across situations |
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| the fundamental sense of being male or female; it is independent of whether the person conforms to social and cultural rules of gender |
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| process by which children learn the abilities, interests, personality traits, and behaviors associated with being masculine or feminine in their culture |
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| what are certain influences on gender? |
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gender schema-how male or female should be
gender socialization-begins at the moment of birth, parents tend to dress girls more feminine and boys more masculine |
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