PSYC-105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Parenting Styles, Midlife Crisis, Secondary Sex Characteristic

• School: MacEwan University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC-105
• Professor: Tara Vongpaisal

Document Summary

Infants" attachment style comes from parents" responsiveness to them: Kagan: behavioural inhibition (ability to repress response) Environmental and genetic influences on social behaviour and social style. Psych 105: chapter 10 cont"d. Strange situation task (mary ainsworth): to evaluate infant attachment in the u. s. Observation of child"s response to mother leaving them in a new environment and returning. (anxiety provoking) Reflects relationship between mother and child: secure attachment: widely observed. Child sees mother as a secure/stable figure, so they quickly calm down after mother returns to comfort them. Seen in first child in the test: insecure- avoidant attachment: not widely observed. Unaffected by mother leaving and little response when she returns. Marked by indifference: insecure- anxious attachment: not widely observed. Temperament: basic emotional styles that appears early in development and is largely genetic in origin. Thomas and chess infant classifications: Loose correlation to later life.