CH 10 Information
Feeling, or affect, that occurs when a person is engaged in an interaction that is important to him or her, especially to his or her well-being.
What is an emotion?
Ainsworth's preferred infant attachment style where children who use the caregiver as a secure base from which to explore the environment.
What is securely attached?
The individual's cognitive representation of the self, the substance of self-conceptions.
Erikson's fifth stage of development, which occurs during the adolescent years, they are faced with finding out who they are, what they are all about, and where they are going in life.
What is identity versus identity confusion?
Socialization that is bidirectional in that children socialize parents just as parents socialize children.
What is reciprocal socialization?
An infant's fear of and wariness toward strangers; it tends to appear in the second half of the first year of life.
What is stranger anxiety?
This attachment theorist used wire and cloth monkey mothers to show how infant monkeys develop attachment.
The global evaluation dimension of the self, referred to as self-worth or self-image.
What is self-esteem?
This theorist developed the four statues of identity: identify diffusion, identity foreclosure, identity moratorium, and identify achievement.
Who is James Marcia?
Living together in a sexual relationship without being married.
What is cohabitation?
What is socioemotional selectivity theory?
Erik Erikson's first development stage that represents how an infant attaches to caregivers in the first year of life.
What is trust versus mistrust?
The subjective sense of ethnic group membership that involves self-labeling and evaluation of one's ethnic group.
What is ethnic identity?
This theory of personality is made up of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism- its acronym is OCEAN.
What is the Big Five Factors of Personality?
The view that the decline in marital satisfaction occurs when children leave home, however, there is research that most parents have an upswing in martial satisfaction when children launch into adulthood.
What is empty nest syndrome?
An individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding.
What is temperament?
This theorist created the Triangular Theory of Love which included three components or dimensions- passion, intimacy, and commitment.
Who is Robert Sternberg?
This is a self-portrait with many pieces including: vocational/career, political, religious, gender, and cultural/ethnic.
These theories state that personality consists of broad dispositions that tend to produce characteristic responses.
What are trait theories?
The term increasingly used by developmentalists in referring not only to abuse and neglect but also to diverse conditions that are detrimental to children.
What is child maltreatment?
The match between a child's temperament and the environmental demands the child must cope with.
What is goodness of fit?
This ethological theorist developed a theory of attachment that stresses that a caregiver and the infant are biologically predisposed to form an attachment.
Who is John Bowlby?
Levinson believed that the middle-aged adult is suspended between the past and the future, trying to cope with the gap that threatens life's continuity.
What is a midlife crisis?
Erikson's 7th stage argues that middle-aged adults face this issue and it encompasses their desire to leave a legacy of themselves for the next generation or they sense that they have done nothing for the next generation.
What is generativity versus stagnation?
The term used often by the public and many professionals to refer to both abuse and neglect.
What is child abuse?