AP Psychology / Unit 3: Development and Learning
3.6 Social-Emotional Development Across the Lifespan
Notes
- Attachment (Harlow's monkeys, Ainsworth's strange situation): secure, insecure-avoidant, insecure-anxious, disorganized.
- Parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, neglectful.
- Erikson's psychosocial stages (trust vs mistrust, identity vs role confusion, and so on).
- Emerging adulthood.
Practice
Harlow's monkeys preferred a cloth mother, showing the importance of:
Attachment isn't only feeding.
Parents who are warm but set clear rules with reasons are:
Balanced style.
Teens figuring out who they are faces Erikson's stage of:
Adolescence.
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