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Social Development. Social Development. Up until about a year old, infants do not mind strange people. At about a year, infants develop stranger anxiety . Mary Ainsworth. Social Development.
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Social Development • Up until about a year old, infants do not mind strange people. • At about a year, infants develop stranger anxiety. • Mary Ainsworth
Social Development • Stranger anxiety - The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsewNrHUHU 3:15 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnFKaaOSPmk 7:15
Social Development: Attachment • Factors: • Body Contact • Familiarity • Responsive Parenting • The most important social construct an infant must develop is attachment • a bond with a caregiver. • Konrad Lorenz discovered that some animals form attachment through imprinting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5X151JDVow 1:28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UIU9XH-mUI 1:38
Social Development • It was first assumed that infants became attached to those who satisfied their need for nourishment. Then this guy came along…
Social Development: Attachment • Harry Harlow and his monkeys. • Harlow showed that monkeys needed touch to form attachment. • Contact Comfort
Social Development: Attachment *Harlow’s monkeys would either cower in fright or act extremely aggressive. Many could not mate and if they could, the mothers were unresponsive parents. Effects from being deprived of attachment: • Trouble forming attachment when they are older. • Often withdrawn, frightened, and in extreme cases, speechless.
Social Development • Parenting styles have been shown to have a positive correlational effect on a child’s self-concept Self-Concept -A sense of one’s identity and self-worth. Three General Classifications of Parenting Styles-Diana Baumrind 1966
Social Development: Parenting Styles • Authoritarian Parents • Permissive/In-dulgent Parents • Authoritative Parents • Uninvolved/Neglectful-later added by Maccoby and Martin 1983 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9GAjT46-aQ 3:28