PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Toilet Training, Harry Harlow, Parenting Styles

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Real life social networking" we have a need for social interaction, we want to be loved, this is present at birth maternal instincts". Cuddling comfort signals security (harlow"s work) Looking eye to eye contact to initiate interactions. Smiling best reward for parenting (around 5 weeks) Attachment is the lifelong emotional bond that exists between the infants and their mothers or other caregivers, formed during the first six months of life. Infant is disoriented, seems overwhelmed by the situation, does not demonstrate a consistent way of coping with it. Authoritarian parents are demanding, expect unquestioned obedience, are not responsive to their children"s desires, and communicate poorly with their children. Authoritative parents are demanding but set rational limits for their children and communicate well with their children. Permissive parents make few demands and are overly responsive to their child"s desires, letting their children to pretty much as they please.