social development of children
- Created by: Shreeya Bhan
- Created on: 09-04-13 05:17
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- Social development: dev of self -awareness, attachment to parents or caregivers, and relationships with other children and adults
- step 1: self-awareness
- step 2: core of soc dev - emotional attachment (close emotional bond) with caregivers -
- eg: baby monkey exp by harlow - monkeys stuck to the terry cloth mother showing attachment begins with contact comfort (pleasant, reassuring feeling human and animal infants get from touching or clinging to something soft and warm)
- there is a sensitive period during which attachment must occur for optimal dev - most babies are more capable of attachment as they grow up
- around 8 to 12 months, babies display separation anxiety (distress when separated from parents) - mild degree is normal; when more intense : separation anxiety disorder
- Attachment quality: revealed by how babies act when mothers return after a brief separation
- securely attached - stabe and positive emotional bond; upset by absence and seek to be near her when she returns
- insecure avoidant: anxious emotional bond; turn away when she returns
- insecure-ambivalent: anxious emotional bond ; mixed feelings - seek to near her and angrily resist contact with her - children become anxious and remote, dont like to make eye contact or touch
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