CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Parenting Styles

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Martha Tompson

Document Summary

Developmental psychology: social/personality development: temperament (chess & thomas) Slow to warm up: dimensions of temperament (rothbart) Emotion: soothability, fearful distress, irritable distress, positivity a ect, attention: attention span/persistance. Developmental psychology: attachment: an indicator of early parent-child bond, ainsworth"s strange situation procedure. Parent and child are alone in a room that is fun with a couch and toys. Child explores room with parental supervision (typical child stands near mom and is scared but then they start to wander) Stranger enters the room, talks to parent, approaches child and plays with them. Parent returns reunion: secure attachment: cry when separated; actively seek comfort. Infant uses attachment gure as a secure base: insecure attachment. Resistant they want them, but when they"re there they don"t know how to act. Disorganized/disoriented wants to approach, but simultaneously scared to do so: attachment is important because it predicts . More empathy and social competence in preschool. More interpersonal success, better school performance, fewer problems in adolescence.