PSY346H5 Study Guide - American Psychological Association, Mary Whiton Calkins, Noam Chomsky
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Placed human infants into stranger situations in order to examine attachment to parents. When 1-year-old infants were left in the care of a stranger, those parented by sensitive, responsive mothers showed signs of secure attachment. Those parented by insensitive and unresponsive parents showed signs of insecure attachments. Secure attachment meaning children wanted their caregiver and showed signs of stress when separated from them. Conformity experiment adjusting one"s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard, even if the group standard is incorrect. Modeling, reciprocity the bobo doll children observed an adult take out their aggression on an inflated doll, and without consequence. When put into a similar situation, the children reacted towards the doll in a similar manner. Also stated the theory that both the environment and thoughts and feelings are the core of what create a personality. Iq testing measured the mental age of a child in relation to their chronological age.
