1. Social Development

2. Attachment The emotional ties that form between people.
Attachment is essential for survival
By four months, they prefer their mother.

3. Stranger Anxiety By 8 months infants develop a fear of strangers.
They become more distressed when strangers try to touch them.

4. Separation Anxiety
Also at about the same age, infants become distressed if they fear that their parent is leaving them
Why?

5. Contact Comfort
Instinctual need to touch or be touched by something soft.
Examples:

6. Imprinting
Process by which some animals form immediate attachments during a critical period.
While this takes place in animals like geese…Humans do not have a critical period.
What does this mean?
How do we know this?

7. What type of parent will you be?
Authoritative
Combine warmth with positive strictness
Children are more independent and achievement oriented.
Authoritarian
Believe in obedience for its own sake
Expect children to follow without question
Children become resistant and less friendly as well as less spontaneous

8. What type of parent will you be?
Permissive
High in warmth but rarely discipline their children
Expectations of maturation are low.
Helicopter Parents
Parents are more involved today than at any other time
Even talking to college professors
Children are their investment

9. Child Abuse and Neglect Causes
Stress- Poverty and Unemployment
History in family
Acceptance of violence as a coping mechanism
Lack of attachment to the children
Substance abuse
Rigid attitudes about child rearing

10. Self-esteem Unconditional Positive Regard Conditional Positive Regard
Parents love and accept their children for who they are-no matter how they behave
How do they grow up?
Conditional Positive Regard
Parents show their love only when the children behave in certain acceptable ways
How do they grow up?