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This document contains comprehensive exam material for the course Human Growth and Development. It includes a wide range of key terms, definitions, and major theoretical concepts required for test preparation. Topics span the entire lifespan—from infancy to late adulthood—and cover areas such as developmental theories, biological and cognitive growth, social influences, and major psychological perspectives. Designed to help students prepare efficiently for exams, this file serves as a full glossary-style reference covering all essential concepts in developmental psychology.

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Human Growth and Development Exam 2
Erikson's Stages of Early Psychosocial Development: Basic Trust vs. Mistrust (Infancy) -
☑️ Infants are dependent on caregivers to meet their needs and provide comfort
The responsiveness and consistency with which caregivers meet these needs helps to develop a
basic sense of trust and openness in the child
If these needs are not met, the child develops wariness and a lack of comfort

Erikson's Stages: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (1-3 years) -
☑️ Children develop a sense of control over their own actions
If autonomy is not
achieved, children are
shameful and doubt their own capabilities

Erikson's Stages: Initiative vs. Guilt (3-5 years) -
☑️ Children develop imagination for possibilities for themselves
Play becomes purposeful and includes paying the roles of mother, father, teacher, or athlete
With proper encouragement and balance, initiative and cooperation are developed

Erikson's Psychosocial Stages -
☑️ Review from Chapter 1- Name the last five Erikson stages
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

The Growth of Attachment -
☑️ Evolutionary Psychology
Views many human behaviors as successful adaptations to the environment

Security in the presence of another, along with need for physical closeness is attachment

Bowlby noticed that children who form attachments to an adult are more likely to survive

Attachments are usually formed with the mother but may be any responsive and caring person

STEPS Toward Attachment -
☑️ 1. Preattachment stage (Birth to 6-8 weeks)

2. Attachment in the making (6-8 weeks to 6-8 months)

3. True Attachment (6-8 months to 18 months)

4. Reciprocal Relationships (18 months on)

Father -Infant Relationships -
☑️ Attachment for fathers tends to follow that with mothers

Fathers tend to spend more time playing with children than taking care of them

,Fathers play with children differently
than mothers (more rough-and-tumble)

Children tend to seek out the father for a playmate. Mothers are preferred for comfort

Re-Cap
Follows attachment with mothers
Spend more time PLAYING
Rough-and- Tumble play
Children like to play with their fathers

Forms of Attachment: The Strange Situation Experiment -
☑️ Ainsworth introduced children and mothers to a room from which the mother then left.
Upon her return, the nature of the child's reaction was studied
Four types of reactions were observed . . .

1. Secure Attachment - on the mother's return, the child is comforted, crying stops, and the child
begins to explore again

2. Avoidant Attachment - on the mother's return the child ignores or turns away

3. Resistant Attachment - the baby is upset and remains upset when mother returns and is difficult to
console

4. Disorganized Attachment - the child seems confused and is unsure of reaction

CONSEQUENCES of Attachment -
☑️ Important considerations:
How do children with secure attachments relate to peers?
Early attachments are prototypes for what later in life?

What Determines #Quality of Attachment? -
☑️ -Predictable and responsible parenting promote secure attachment relationships

-Infants are frequently in childcare

Think about Good Parenting promotes secure attachment relationships because of what?
__________________
Infants develop this _____________.
Which is a __________.

Attachment, Work, & Alternate Caregiving -
☑️ NICHD research suggested:

1. No relationship between quality of the daycare and mother-child attachment

2. No relationship between length of stays or changes in daycare and parent attachment

3. Quality of attachment was found to be more related to the sensitivity of the mother to the child's
needs and care

, Functions of Emotions -
☑️ Why do people feel emotions?
Modern theories point at the functional value of emotions

Emotions are useful because they help people: (Fill in Blank)
adapt ________________
meet_________________
To _____________________

Basic emotions and their elements -
☑️ Joy, anger, and fear are considered the 3 basic emotions

Basic emotions are experienced across the globe and consist of 3 basic elements:

1. A subjective feeling

2. A physiological change

3. An overt behavior

Measuring Emotions -
☑️ Facial expressions indicate emotional state

Infants all over the world express emotions similarly, suggesting biological programming

By 5-6 months, infants' facial expressions change in reaction to events

Close resemblance between adult and infant smiles suggest facial expressions have similar meaning

Ages of Complex Emotions -
☑️ Complex emotions emerge around 18-24 months because the infant has to have a
beginning sense of self. (self-awareness)

Complex emotions include:
Guilt
Embarrassment
Pride

Cognitive growth allows primary schoolchildren to experience these complex emotions

Cultural Differences - Emotions -
☑️ Culture influences when and how much children express emotions

Many emotions are expressed similarly around the world

Some differences have been observed:

-Asian children are encouraged to show emotional restraint

-European American 11-month-olds cried and smiled more than

-Chinese infants of same age

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