HDE 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cognitive Development, Prolactin, Role Model
8 Jul 2018
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Changing parental roles - the sharing and redistribution of family responsibility in. Strict traditional families has declined over the last decades. Men more responsible for the care of their children. One of the most influential shapers of our 20th century cultural views of the family . Argued mothers played major role in shaping their infant. Mothers were more biologically better prepared for parenthood. Argued early development was a result of instinctive responses that are important for the protection & survival of the species . Crying, smiling, clinging, & following all elicit necessary parental care & protection for the infant promote contact & eventually an attachment bond . Disagreed with freud"s idea of the feeding situation. Argued that the mom was 1st & most important object of infant attachment while fathers played a secondary & supportive role . Found - human infants" attachment to their caregivers, including fathers & grandparents, was independent of the degree of their involvement in feeding .
