GVSU PSY 101 GALEN MIDTERM- CHAPTER 10 WITH EXPERT CURATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Role of Parents

All nurture influences on a child's development

ie. cognitive and behavioral development, actions, etc.

Bowlby/Ainsworth Attachment styles

Secure attachment: Distress when separated from caregiver, and relieved when caregiver returns

Ambivalent attachment: Distress when a parent leaves

Avoidant attachment: Avoid parents or caregiver

Disorganized attachment: Mix of above behaviors

Imprinting

Come to recognize an animal, person, or thing as a parent or other object of habitual trust

Parenting styles

Permissive: Little or no interaction

Authoritative: Assertive with clear standards

Uninvolved: Passive, neglective

authoritarian: Punishment, assertive

Contact comfort and Harlow's monkeys

Physical and emotional comfort an infant receives from being in physical contact with its mother

wire monkey with milk vs soft monkey without milk

Temperament

A person or animal's temper, especially as it affects its behavior

Critical and sensitive periods

A time during an organism's life span in which it is more sensitive to environmental influences or stimulation

Morality in videolab video

Ted Talk; Rebecca argued temporal - parietal junction effects what one half of the brain does

baby 60 minutes- babies chose the stuffed animals that are the "good ones" and the ones who took revenge on the "bad ones"

Divorce

divorce itself doesn't effect kids, the fighting & conflict does

self control

ability to inhibit impulses

ex) marshmallow experiment

contrast w Kohlbergs Theory

nature vs nurture- our environment and our genetics are the cause of how we are, not Kohlbergs stages

Moral Stages(Piaget)

Sensorimotor-(0-2y) object premenance forgetting an object is there

ex)babies playing peek a boo

preoperational (2-7y) can form mental representations but can't see outside of their internal world ex)volcano perspective video

concrete operations(7-11) can perform mental ops but very literal minded

Formal operations (11-adult) hypothetical reasoning & logic