PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: John Bowlby, Role Theory, 6 Years
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Test: monday chapter 6,7,10; out of 50; 20 mc; 5-10 definitions, Regardless of which approach we believe in (biological going to grow up a certain way anyway; social going to pick up things from social experience anyway) Instead children tend to learn quickly and act at certain points in their development, especially when new abilities emerge. Considerable learning takes place during the toddler years (1. 5 3) when children first make bids for autonomy and begin to talk. Early adolescence is another transitional point young teens have to cope with change as a result of puberty and expanding cognitive abilities. Early studies of boys who showed extremely feminine behaviours assumed the freudian model. Dysfunctional, pathogenic family (i. e. boy identified with mom and internalized female behaviours from mom) Assumption was that a boy must learn to denigrate the female, and to downplay the competence of the mom.
