CFD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Child Care, Assertiveness

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 1010
• Professor: Frank R Peterson

Document Summary

Factors that affect attachment security: early availability of consistent caregiver, quality of caregiving, sensitive caregiving, interactional synchrony. Infant characteristics: family circumstances, parents" internal working models. Child care and attachment security: family circumstances, powerful impact of parenting quality on children"s adjustment, balance of work and caregiving, child care, benefits of high-quality child care, association between long hours in inadequate child care and behavior problems. Multiple attachments: babies develop attachments to a variety of familiar people, fathers, grandparents, siblings. Self-awareness: beginnings, infants" sense of being physically distinct from surroundings, implicit sense of self world differentiation, explicit self-awareness, self-recognition: Identification of the self as a physically unique being: explicit body self-awareness, realization that one"s own body can serve as an obstacle. Influences on self-awareness: gains in self-awareness result from, acting on the environment, sensitive caregiving, cultural variations, autonomous child-rearing goals, expressing one"s own interests and preferences, relational child-rearing goals, compliance and sharing.