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Unit 5: Development. Chapter 10: Infancy and childhood. Warm Up 01/06. What is a vivid episodic memory? What was the name of the psychologist that classically conditioned his dogs to drool at the sound of a bell?. Warm up 01/23. Why do you think we are studying children?.
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Unit 5: Development Chapter 10: Infancy and childhood
Warm Up 01/06 • What is a vivid episodic memory? • What was the name of the psychologist that classically conditioned his dogs to drool at the sound of a bell?
Warm up 01/23 • Why do you think we are studying children?
Study of Development • Nature vs. Nurture • maturation - automatic sequential process of aging • heredity • critical period - best time to learn a particular skill • Genie
Study of Development • stages versus continuity • stages - step by step • continuity - slowly and gradually
Warm up 11/14 • Genie’s inability to learn language could mean she missed the ___________ of language development. • What type of drugs causes the activity of the nervous system to increase? • What type of drugs causes the activity of the nervous system to decrease?
Physical Development of Infants • Height & Weight • rapid fetal growth • double birth weight in 1st five months • grow 10 inches in 1st year • 2-3 inches after first year until adolescents
physical development • Motor Development • turns stomach to side - month 4 • stomach to back - month 6 • back to stomach - month 7 • sits - month 8 • crawls - month 9 • kneels - month 11 • stands - month 13 • walks - month 15
Warm up 02/05 • What are you thinking about? • Would you be thinking the same things if you were 5?
Physical Development • Reflexes • grasping • rooting • turning toward something that touches the infant’s cheek • sucking • Perception • like the most complex pattern they can see • eyesight when born 20/300 • visual cliff
Social Development • Attachment • Temperament= individual style of expressing needs and emotions • Harlow’s monkeys • contact comfort
Social Development • Attachment • Lorenz’s geese • imprinting • immediate attachment during a critical period • Ainsworth’s belief of attachment • secure = bonded to caregiver • insecure = not bonded
Social Development • Parenting styles • Warm vs. Cold • better adjusted if parents are warm • strict vs. permissive • authoritarian - complete obedience & strict guidelines • authoritative - warmth & authority • permissive - let kids do whatever they want
Social Development • Child Care • good - more socialization for children, more chances to cognitively develop, • bad - less parent/child attachment • Child Abuse and Neglect • ~3 million children in US abused or neglected • more psychological problems? • runs in families? • not all that are abused become abusers
Social Development • self-esteem • unconditional positive regard - love & accept child for who they are • conditional positive regard - love & accept child when acting a certain way • gender? • gender norms - more confident in things your gender is supposed to be better • age? • low point at 12-13
Cognitive Development • Piaget’s Theory • assimilation • placing info into a category that already exists • accomodation • change in thinking that happens due to new info
Cognitive Development • Sensorimotor Stage • coordinating sensation/perception with motor functions • object permanence - knowing an object still exists just because you can’t see it • developed after 6 months
Preoperational Stage • using words and symbols • basic understanding of things • don’t get the law of conservation • egocentric - don’t understand the point of view of others • Concrete operational • don’t get abstract ideas • start to understand others’ points of view
Formal-Operational Stage • think abstractly • moral principles • hypothetical situations • Piaget, you idiot… • doesn’t give enough credit to kids
Piaget Poster • Quartered Poster with each stage labeled and key concepts and developmental tasks of each stage.
Parenting Style Skit • In groups of 4, create a skit for each of the three parenting styles. • Write down a summary of what you did and turn it in...so I can give you credit.
Warm up 02/07 • Is it ok to steal a loaf of bread to feed your family?
Moral Development • Kohlberg • Preconventional • through the age of nine • consequences of behavior • avoiding punishment
Moral Development • Conventional • conventional standards of “right” and “wrong” • family, religion, society, etc. • what most would do • ~ ages 9-16 • Postconvetional • personal values not what society dictates • human life, justice, and dignity • usually found in adults
Moral Development • Problems with this theory • according to theory boys more morally superior than girls • empathy messes up the scale • ages are not exact
What would you do? • A building is on fire. You can either save a room of 20 strangers or your mother. Who do you rescue? • Without a certain type of medication, your best friend will die. They don’t have enough money to afford it. Do you steal the medication? • You didn’t study for a test. It is worth 50% of your grade. You get the test and have no idea any of the answers. Do you cheat?
Egg Project • We will be going over the instruction for the egg project today. • Make sure your group gets an egg • Go ahead and start the naming/gendering process
Chapter 10 Vocab • developmental psychology • maturation • critical period • reflex • infancy • childhood • attachment • separation anxiety • contact comfort • imprinting • Kohlberg’s stages of moral development • parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive • self-esteem • positive regard • assimilation • accomodation • Piaget’s developmental stages • conservation • egocentrism