Unit 5: Development

CHAPTER 10: INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD

Warm Up 01/06

1. What is a vivid episodic memory?2. What was the name of the psychologist that

classically conditioned his dogs to drool at the sound of a bell?

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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

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Study of Development

• stages versus continuity• stages - step by step• continuity - slowly and gradually

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Warm up 11/14

1. Genie’s inability to learn language could mean she missed the ___________ of language development.

2. What type of drugs causes the activity of the nervous system to increase?

3. 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?

1. A building is on fire. You can either save a room of 20 strangers or your mother. Who do you rescue?

2. 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?

3. 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