PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personality Development, Peer Victimization, Determinative

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Waggoner Denton Ashley

Document Summary

Chapter 9: social and personality development in childhood: Childhood social and personality development emerges through interaction of social influences, biological maturation and the child"s representations of social world and self. How have i become the kind of person i am today? . Understanding social and personality development requires looking at children from 3 perspectives: 1. Social context in which each child lives relationships that provide security, guidance and knowledge: 2. Biological maturation that supports developing social and emotional competencies and underlies temperamental individuality: 3. Children"s developing representations of themselves and the social world. Development of the earliest relationships between infants and parents in the first year. All infants living in normal circumstances develop strong emotional attachments to those who care for them. Attachments have evolved in humans because they promote children"s motivation to stay close to them. Infants sense of security in those attachments varies; they.