Psychology lifespan
CHAPTER SIX
Emotional and Social Development
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Infancy and Toddlerhood
DISCUSSION
What differences might exist between children raised within the home for the first five years versus children raised within daycares and preschools during that span of life?
What role might a “bad” daycare play with regard to a toddlers emotional development?
OVERVIEW
Theories
The “Self”
Parenting
Emotions
Review Questions
THEORIES (one of two)
Freud
Oral Stage / Birth to approximately Eighteen Months
Aspect of Personality – Id
Pleasure Principle
Unconscious
Need: Give / Get, physical and emotional needs
THEORIES (two of two)
Erikson
Crisis: Trust versus Mistrust (first stage, HOPE)
Lack of infant care leads to mistrust and anxiety
Important Aspect of Society: Maternal Person
Stranger Anxiety / Separation Anxiety
Key: Attachments
Types
Secure
Insecure
Avoidant
Ambivalent (suspicious)
Disorganized - Disoriented
THE “SELF”
Socialization
Self-Recognition
Self-Awareness
Social Referencing
Self-Control
Self-Concept
Easy Children
Difficult Children
Slow-to-Warm Up Children
PARENTING
Goodness of “fit”
Discipline
Situational compliance (not generalized)
Committed compliance (internalizing instruction)
EMOTIONS
Theories
Plutchik (evolutionary)
Emergence
The “social Smile” (brain development)
Altruism / Prosocial behavior
REVIEW QUESTIONS
What theorist suggested that our emotional repertoire develops as we feel emotions in increased combination?
List two forms of relationships based on distrust?
T/F – At one year of age children are capable of altruism.