PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12251: Stepfamily, Infant Mortality, Behaviorism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 251
• Professor: Valerie Ann Kuhlmeier

Document Summary

Attachment: close emotional relationship exhibited by a child toward a caregiver expressed by maintaining physical proximity, stress upon separation & relief f stress upon reunion. Death rates for infants in 1st year exceeded 50% attributed to unsanitary conditions. To reduce infections they minimized contact between parents, staff & infants- meaning children were devoid of social contact extreme emotional distress despite sanitary conditions. Connection between psychological isolation & elevated death rates + emotional wasting. Infants raised by their own mothers & infants raised from 3months of life by overworked nursery staff. ** motor, social, & intellectual development, & mortality- remarkable differences. Staff-raised: significant signs of impairment for all aspects of psychological development. 5 year period: no mother-raised infants died, 37% staff-raised infants died over 2 year period. Hospitalism: almost irreversible & deathly syndrome in kids who were separated from their mothers or other significant caregivers for longer periods than 5 months during 1st year of life.