Developmental Psychology Final Exam
authoritarian parenting - low warmth, hight control: little warmth, unresponsive, harsh enforcer
of rules, power assertive
Authoritative children - energetic, friendly, positive emotionally, social and cognitive
development, achievement oriented
Authoritative parenting - high warmth, high control: warm and responsive, involved but not
intrusive, sets reasonable limits
Bem Recommendation - Teach children sex education (male-female differences and bodies)
WITHOUT teaching cultural stereotypes, teach skepticism about gender messages
Bowlby - father of attachment theory, observed children in orphanages/experienced prolonged
separation from primary care givers.
Bowlby: child observation - the children had a variety of emotional problems, mother infant
bond is very important, theoretical, differed from Watson
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model of Development - made up of 5 systems, each containing
each other and all are important to development
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model of development: 5 systems - microsystem, mesosystem,
exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem
chronosystem - historical time
, cog. development theory: children - children first acquire their sense of gender identity and
then display and identify appropriate behaviors
adolescence-limited offenders - begins in adolescence, desists in young childhood: common,
relatively transient, near normative
Ainsworth - focus on ordinary differences in rearing, worked in Kampala, Uganda: careful,
naturalistic observations of how babies become attached to their mothers, came up with a
strange situation [Bowlby's research assistant]
approach/positive affect temperament --> - -> extraversion
associations between temperament and personality - temperament dimensions and measures
of later personality, some longitudinal predictions, in support of stability
attachment behaviors - crying (distress call), smile (parent feels love and being close), babbling
(social interaction), holding on reflexes (safety)
attachment contributions - highlighted importance of emotional needs, moved away from
behaviorism and from 'crying it out'
Attachment goals interacting - adequate safety--> exploring; safety drops--> activates
attachment system
Attachment types - secure, insecure-avoidant, insecure-resistant, disorganized
authoritarian children - conflicted, irritable, unhappy, moody
authoritarian parenting - low warmth, hight control: little warmth, unresponsive, harsh enforcer
of rules, power assertive
Authoritative children - energetic, friendly, positive emotionally, social and cognitive
development, achievement oriented
Authoritative parenting - high warmth, high control: warm and responsive, involved but not
intrusive, sets reasonable limits
Bem Recommendation - Teach children sex education (male-female differences and bodies)
WITHOUT teaching cultural stereotypes, teach skepticism about gender messages
Bowlby - father of attachment theory, observed children in orphanages/experienced prolonged
separation from primary care givers.
Bowlby: child observation - the children had a variety of emotional problems, mother infant
bond is very important, theoretical, differed from Watson
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model of Development - made up of 5 systems, each containing
each other and all are important to development
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model of development: 5 systems - microsystem, mesosystem,
exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem
chronosystem - historical time
, cog. development theory: children - children first acquire their sense of gender identity and
then display and identify appropriate behaviors
adolescence-limited offenders - begins in adolescence, desists in young childhood: common,
relatively transient, near normative
Ainsworth - focus on ordinary differences in rearing, worked in Kampala, Uganda: careful,
naturalistic observations of how babies become attached to their mothers, came up with a
strange situation [Bowlby's research assistant]
approach/positive affect temperament --> - -> extraversion
associations between temperament and personality - temperament dimensions and measures
of later personality, some longitudinal predictions, in support of stability
attachment behaviors - crying (distress call), smile (parent feels love and being close), babbling
(social interaction), holding on reflexes (safety)
attachment contributions - highlighted importance of emotional needs, moved away from
behaviorism and from 'crying it out'
Attachment goals interacting - adequate safety--> exploring; safety drops--> activates
attachment system
Attachment types - secure, insecure-avoidant, insecure-resistant, disorganized
authoritarian children - conflicted, irritable, unhappy, moody
