101184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural-Historical Psychology, Magical Thinking, John Bowlby
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Outline: cognitive development, piaget"s stage theory, vygotsky"s socio-cultural theory. Social-emotional development: attachment, stranger anxiety, separation anxiety, strange situation. What is developmental psychology: developmental psychology examines human growth and changes across the lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality and emotional growth, biological, physical psychological and behavioural changes that occur across the lifespan. No it meows: cat schema is formed. Formal operational shape, 12 years: reason hypothetically, can reason in terms of verbally stated hypotheses to consider logical relations or deduce conclusions from abstract statements. Formal operational child: two: concrete operational child: will protest the absurdity of the premise. Social and emotional development: attachment is the strong emotional bond that develops between children and their primary caregiver. Is attachment based on nourishment or comfort: human infants, bowlby (1969) proposed that attachment in human infants develops in 3 phases. Directed at anyone: discriminate (3 months) directed more towards familiar caregiver than stranger.