1. Ch 7: Infant and Toddler Social Emotional Development
CD2 / Psych 2
Ch 7: Infant and Toddler
Social Emotional Development

2. Infant Social and Emotional Development
Becoming Attached
Developing Social Skills and Becoming Socialized
Emotional Development
Temperament and Personality

3. Becoming Attached Attachment Ainsworth’s Strange Situation
“Goodness of fit”
Father-Infant Attachment
Assessing Parent - Child interactions
Attachment Theory

4. Stages of Attachment Stage 1: Asocial Attachment (birth - 6 weeks)
Stage 2: Indiscriminate Attachment
(6 weeks - 7 months)
Stage 3: Specific Attachment
(7 - 9 months)
Stage 4: Multiple Attachments
(9-18 months)

5. Socializing With an Infant
Preferred
People?
Stages of facial recognition
Stranger anxiety
Security
Language Development?
Turn Taking
Babbling and cooing
Parent-ese
Social Skill Development?
Building relationships
Making friendships
Learning social cues

6. Socializing with a Toddler
Favorite toys?
Manipulation skills
Curiosity and discovery
Imagination
Favorite activities?
Making decisions and choices
Self-help skills
Games and books
Favorite places?
Home/family
Park
Zoo
Toy store
Play groups

7. Developing Pro-Social Behaviors
Empathy (feeling what others feel)
Self-control (physical, verbal, tioleting)
Self-awareness (hungry, tired, “done”)
Self-help (dressing, toys and books)
Speaking up (use your words)

8. Emotional Development
Early emotional experiences: pleasure, frustration, joy, discomfort
Naming the 4 basic feelings: happy, sad, hurt, mad
Play: learning to get along with others
Coping skills: fatigue, hunger, frustration

9. Temperament and Personality
flexible
fearful
feisty
Freud’s psychosexual theory of personality
Erikson’s psychosocial theory of personality

10. Self-Awareness Social referencing
Awareness of self: the process of individuation

11. Theories of Personality
Freud’s psychosexual theory
Erikson’s psychosocial theory