1. Human Development,cont
Social Development

2. Write, Turn and Talk
Take about 5 minutes to respond in your journals to the following prompt:
What you think is the most important thing in our social development (or how we interact with others) and why do you think that?
Now take about 2 minutes to share your response with at least 2 others in the class.

3. Social Development
Attachment : the emotional connections that form between people
Do we become attached just because we need to be fed?
Harry Harlow: monkey experiments
Attachment comes from a need for contact comfort: the feeling of having physical contact with someone/something that is warm and soft and causes a feeling of well being
Monkeys who experienced the cloth “mother” felt secure in exploring their surrounding knowing they had a “ comforting and secure” base to return to

4. Mary Ainsworth:
Noticed that children at first wanted to be held by just anyone but by 4 mos begin to prefer the primary caregiver (mother)
About 4-8 months begin to exhibit stranger anxiety: fear of strangers and separation anxiety: distress when the primary caregiver leaves

5. What are the types of attachment?
Secure: results when child feels that parent is reliable and will be there when needed
Insecure: results when children feel that caregivers are unresponsive or unreliable in meeting their needs
Ambivalent: child was not concerned with caregiver’s absence
Avoidant: child fussed even when caregiver returned

6. How does attachment style impact personality?
Securely attached children:
Take more risks
Explores their environment more
More cooperative; friendly
Less likely to display behavior problems
More likely to do well in school
Insecurely attached children
Less willing to take risks or explore their environments (wants the sure thing)
May be loners; unable to form friendships
May display behavior problems

7. What are the types of parenting styles?
Warm v. cold:
Warm parents are physically affectionate, engaged with children
Cold parents are less affectionate and may seem distant
Strict v. permissive:
Strict parents set boundaries, rules may be both positive and negative
Permissive parents have few rules, allowing children the “freedom” to make decisions
With a partner, discuss how having a strict parent can be both positive and negative.

8. Children of authoritative parents:
Parents can display combinations of being warm/strict (authoritative), cold/permissive, cold/strict (authoritarian), warm/permissive
Children of authoritative parents:
Independent
Achievement oriented
Positive sense of self
Children of authoritarian parents:
Resistant or dependent of others
Less spontaneous
Do not do as well in school