HLSC111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Attachment Theory, 6 Years, Lev Vygotsky
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The prenatal period (conception to birth: development is remarkably rapid and mother"s health behaviours can influence the baby"s development. Piaget"s sensorimotor stage: separation anxiety, peek-a-boo, concept of causality things move. Physical development: voluntary motor movements, visual sharpness improves, motor ability increases, teeth appear, child is born with reflexive responses but proceeds to develop moto skills and coordination. Emotional and social development: develops a social smile, develops separation anxiety, develops stranger anxiety, peak at 14 months and decline by age 2. Attachment is the close, emotional bonds that develop between infants and their caregivers. It ensures infants physical needs are being met (feeding, nurturing: bonding is a biologically-based process where the parents and the infant form a connection in the first hours after birth, both have behaviours that promote attachment (eye contact) Attachment and infants: baby often experiences a fear of unfamiliar people. Harlow (1959: essential for normal social development.
