Lifespan development part II

more rants.

Infancy and Childhood

Sense of self: This must have began before i said my first word since i remember that scene well. Supposedly around 18months.

By age 2 we start to understand performance standards, have guilt and shame.

We develop emotional competence, emotional regulation. Our initial emotions come from social referencing, seeing how adults express their emotions to guide our own.

personality development: infant temperament(tends to persist throughout life. 1. easy baby 2. difficult baby 3. slow to warm up baby) I think i was a difficult baby. Mother says i cry the moment the sky turns dark. My behavioural inhibition was prob high. this persists into childhood.

Erickson's psychosocial theory states that personality develops through confronting a series of 8 steps.

Social development and attachment:

newborns are predisposed to react to people, esp those communicating with them. They can have periodicity or burst-pause behaviour, which creates their prelinguistic conversations.

Attachment: strong emotional bond develops between child and primary caregiver(sensitive period). Stages- indiscriminate, discriminate, specific, goal corrected and lessoning. As the stages progress, 2 kinds of anxiety emerges- stranger and separation

Types: anxious, anxious-avoidant, securely attached.

Attachment across lifespan is when children develop an internal working model of attachment based on parents. Adult attachment types: autonomous, dismissive, enmeshed, unresolved.

Attachment deprivation: affects social relationships later on in life.

Styles of parenting: authoritative(best kind), authoritarian, indulgent, neglectful.

Moral development: types of moral thinking (pre-conventional- anticipated punishments or rewards, conventional-societal laws, post conventional-taking individual rights into consideration)

Conscience: restrains ppl from socially destructive behaviours

Emotional social dev in adolescence: IDENTITY identify diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, identity achievement. I think i am in foreclosure. committed to a set of values but not yet exp identity crisis

In adulthood: isolation vs intimacy, generativity vs stagnation, integrity vs despair

In oldage: death and dying stages(denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance)