Developmental S:F&P

Development in social context

• socialisation: process through which kids are taught behaviours appropriate in community
• other social influences: peers, relatives, teachers, direct and indirect links between various components of a sociary, affect socialisation and childs' development

Parenting styles

• high acceptance/high control = authoritative
• low responsiveness/high control = authoritarian
• high acceptance/low demanding = permissive
• low responsiveness/low demanding = uninvolved

Temperament

• tendancy to respond in certain way across situations, precursor of personality
• five major attributes in babies
• > activity level
• > irritability
• > soothability
• > fearfulness
• > sociability

Temperament: stability

• is temperament stable over time?
• > Caspi & Silva (1995): activity…