PSYC 3404 Study Guide - Final Guide: Twin Study, Social Status, Role Conflict

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3404
• Professor: Christina Cipriano Crowe

Document Summary

Write an essay which identifies the key relationships across the lifespan (infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence and emerging adulthood). Make sure to discuss the developmental significance of each relationship. Familial relationships: the process of social development during infancy is absolutely crucial. If infants can develop trust, then they trust that they can soon fulfill their own needs. If infants fail to develop trust, they distrust the world and have difficulty developing bonds in the future. B: twin study: twins are more comfortable with each other than unfamiliar infants. In later infancy, children play social games with each other: vital to development: foundation for future social exchanges where children will try to receive a response and then give one back. Family relationships: research reveals that strong relationships with parents and siblings influence children"s. -> more difficulty in social situations: undemanding parents, permissive: hold little responsibility for themselves or their children, provide lax and inconsistency (1)