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Stresses the evolutionary basis of many aspects of parental behavior, including the extensive investment parents make in their offspring
Parental-investment theory
Emphasizes the crucial role of cognitive processes in social behavior
Dodge's Information-processing theory of social problem solving
The tendency to assume that other people's ambiguous actions stem from a hostile intent
Hostile attributional bias
Sees the environment as a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls"
Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological model
The activities, roles, and relationships in which the child directly participates
Microsytem
Order of the levels in Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model
1. Microsystem

2. Mesosystem


3. Exosystem


4. Macrosystem


5. Chronosystem

The connections among various microsystems, such as family, peers, and schools
Mesosystem
Settings that children may not directly be a part of but that can still influence their development
Exosystem
The general beliefs, values, customs, and laws of the larger society in which all the other levels are embedded
Macrosystem
Historical changes that influence the other systems
Chronosystem
A process in which newborn birds and mammals of some species become attached to their mother at first sight and follow her everywhere
Imprinting
Emphasizes the importance of early experience, emphasized importance of subjective experience, and the large role of unconscious
Sigmund Freud
Type of theory that emphasized discontinuity
Psychoanalytic theories
Age the Id develops (not number)

Present from birth

Innate biological drives, unconscious
Id
Age the Ego develops
Emerges later in the first year
Stands for reason and good sense, develops into sense of "self"
Ego
Age the superego emerges
Between 3 and 6 years
Conscience, enables you to control your behavior
Superego
Freuds 5 stages
1. Oral

2. Anal


3. Phallic


4. Latency


5. Genital

Age of the oral stage
First year of life
What happens during the oral stage
Basic needs are met by oral stimulation
Age of the anal stage
Second year of life
What happens during the anal stage
Biological maturation allows for control of some bodily functions

Pleasure derived from elimination

Age of the phallic stage
3-6 years
What happens during the phallic stage
Children become interested in genitalia

Superego emerges through the internalization of social rules and identifying with their parents

Age of the latency stage
6-12 years old
What happens during the latency stage
Sexual desire safely hidden in unconscious

Energy put into social and intellectual pursuits

Age of the genital stage
Begins at sexual maturity
What happens during the genital stage
Sexual energy released and directed towards opposite sex
Elaborated Freud's theory to include cultural and contemporary issues
Erik Erikson
Covers infancy to old age

Eight stages, each with a crisis that must be resolved

Erikson's psychoanalytic theory
First 5 stages of Erikson's theory
1. Basic trust vs. mistrust

2. Autonomy vs. shame and doubt


3. Initiative vs. guilt


4. Industry vs. inferiority


5. Identity vs. role confusion

Age of Basic trust vs. mistrust stage
First year of life
Success/failure of the basic trust vs. mistrust stage
Success = sense of trust

Mistrust = sense of distress

Age of Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
1-3.5 years
Success/failure of the autonomy vs. shame and doubt
Success = sense of autonomy

Failure = sense of shame/doubt

Age of initiative vs. guilt stage
4-6 years
Success/failure during the initiative vs. guilt stage
Success = sense of independence

Failure = sense of guilt

Age of industry vs. inferiority stage
6 years old to puberty
Success/failure during the industry vs. inferiority stage
Success = sense of competence

Failure = sense of inferiority



Age of the identity vs. role confusion stage

Teens to early adulthood
Success/failure of the identity vs. role confusion stage
Success = strong sense of self

Failure = confusion about what roles to take on

Emphasize nurture and continuity
Learning theories
Behaviorism

Believed that children were products of social environment


Parents should distance themselves and be objective with children

John B Watson
Technique to eliminate anxiety/phobias through controlled exposure
Systematic desensitization
We tend to repeat behaviors that are rewarded but not those that are punished
Operant conditioning
Believed that every behavior is a result of reinforcement history
BF Skinner
Adjusting reinforcement contingencies to promote desired behavior and deter unwanted behavior
Behavior modification
Bobo Doll Study
Children watched a film of adults acting aggressively toward an inflated doll

Kids did the same and acted aggressively towards the doll

Results of the Bobo Doll Study (3)
Kids less likely to imitate if model is punished

Even if did not imitate, would produce behavior if given incentive


Boys were more physically aggressive, but girls were too if given incentive

Studied Modeling and Aggression with the famous Bobo Doll study
Albert Bandura
Behavior modification strategy
BF Skinner
Social Learning theory
Albert Bandura