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Social Development
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What is Social development? Involves the ways in which infants and children relate to each other.
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Social Development Includes Attachment Parenting Self-esteem
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Attachment Emotional ties that form between people. Essential to survival especially infants
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Stranger Anxiety A fear of strangers About 8 months
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Separation Anxiety Causes infants to cry or behave in ways of distress if their mother or primary caregiver leaves them.
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Contact Comfort Remember Harry Harlow? The instinctual need to touch and be touched by something soft. Harlow concluded the need for contact is stronger than the need for food. Gives a sense of security
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Imprinting The process by which some animals form immediate attachments during a critical period. Konrad Lorenz acquired a family of goslings because he was present at birth and he was the first moving object they saw.
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Secure Attachment Primary caregivers are affectionate, reliable Children are happier, friendlier and get along better with others Less likely to misbehave
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Insecure attachment Caregivers are unresponsive and unreliable Children are less cooperative Little or no effort to make contact with caregivers
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Styles of Parenting
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Strict Warm Permissive Cold Most Parents Demanding Possessive Controlling Dictatorial Supportive protective affectionate flexible caring Neglecting indifferent careless detached Lenient democratic inconsistent overindulgent
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Authoritative Means with authority Warm with positive kinds of strictness Children usually are more independent, and higher self esteem
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Authoritarian Favoring unquestionable obedience Parents often are rejecting and cold Children may be less friendly, and do not do as well in school.
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Self Esteem Value or worth people place on themselves Protects people from stress and struggles with life Authoritative parents Secure attachment
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Unconditional Positive Regard Parents love and accept children for who they are-no matter how they behave High self esteem
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Conditional Positive Regard Parents show their love only when children behave in certain acceptable ways Low self esteem Continue to seek approval from others.
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Gender & Self-esteem Ages 5-7, children value themselves based on physical appearance and performance in school Self-fulfilling prophecy-live up to the expectation
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Age and Self-esteem Declines during elementary school Lowest at 12-13 How they see themselves is not how others may see them Compare themselves to their peers
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