THE EFFECTS OF CHILD CARE 1 A variety of changes in the world have demanded an increase in the need for child care. Some of theses changes include migration‚ poverty‚ and urbanization. These economic and societal changes are forcing more and more woman into the workforce. Among these are young women and mothers. From the 1970’s to the 1990’s there was a major increase in the need for child care. In March of 1970‚ 26% of mothers with children under the age of 2 were working outside the home. By
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Title: Attachment and Relational Satisfaction Kamal Rahmani Indiana University Northwest Psychology Today Magazine Have you ever came across and ignored information relating to your romantic partner’s attachment style? Maybe while having a conversation with your lover or your lover’s family members or friends. Surprisingly‚ a recent study showed that one’s attachment style greatly affects their emotional communication which in turn influences the partner’s relational satisfaction. The study examined
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Relationships Children that do not receive continuous loving care‚ and do not form attachments with the care-giver‚ can grow up to be emotionally and cognitively damaged. Attachment is defined as: ‘a long enduring emotionally meaningful bond to a particular individual’¸ this bond is usually characterised by a desire for proximity to the care-giver and by separation distress when the bond is broken. The attachment object offers comfort and acts as a source of security. THE ROLE OF THE CAREGIVER-INFANT
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Nature vs Nurture The developmental psychology is a branch of psychology that studies and examines our physical‚ cognitive and social development across the life span. One of the main topics of developmental psychology is the nature vs nurture debate. The nature vs nurture debate discuss if behavior and development is driven by genes or by experience. Genes are nature. Nature is the inborn‚ biological factors‚ the things you were born with. People who believe that nature defines your personality
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Melanie Klien and Psychology 1- Melanie Klein claimed that in their earliest stages of infantile psychic life‚ they go through a complete development‚ through certain position. There are two major positions‚ the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position. The paranoid-schizoid position is the earlier position‚ whereby if a child’s life environment and raising are adequate‚ they will successfully progress to the subsequent position: the depressive position. The transformation of the
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The evolutionary explanation of attachment was mainly developed by John Bowlby. Starting in the early 1940s he suggests that there is an innate nature attachment‚ this meaning that a baby is born biologically with ideas/ behaviours‚ for a baby to form an attachment with a caregiver. Bowlby suggests that the main reason for this instinctive attachment is due to the primary dependency for food and survival on a mother figure. Based on Freud’s theory that a mother – child relationship is important in
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quality of attachment to the mother." Discuss‚ referring to relevant empirical evidence. The primal importance of a child’s bond to its mother has always been recognised‚ and is a topic that has fascinated people for thousands of years. Playwrights from Sophocles to the modern day have explored this‚ and in more recent times psychologists have devoted much research and conjecture to understanding it. Among psychologists‚ there is much debate about exactly how important this attachment is‚ and why
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the adoption-friendly theory that connection of care—“nurture”—was a far more determining factor in healthy psychological development than “nature.” (Harry F. Harlow‚ 1959) Then he showed how early periods of time are crucial to the capacity of attachment‚ If the early days or weeks of the infant were lost it would be really hard or even hopeless to compensate for the loss of initial emotional comfort. The critical period thesis confirmed the idea of assigning infants with adoptive mothers as shortly
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Chapter 11 Human Development 1. Developmental psychology-the study of changed in physiology‚ cognition‚ and social behavior over the life span 2. What shapes a child? a. Consistency suggests genes set pace/ order of development b. Eye contact when born‚ smile‚ roll over‚ sit up‚ crawl‚ stand‚ walk‚ talk c. Environment also has influence c.i. Certain stages happen at different intervals c.ii. Due to the way we raise children differs between cultures c.iii. Environment influences the
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Infants primary attachment style is carried through into adult life so would expect the same expectations in later relationships. Shaver et al suggested three behavioural systems that are acquired in infancy which are attachment which is related to Bowlbys research‚ care giving where infants learn to care for each other through modelling the behaviour of the primary attachment figure and sexuality systems which is learnt in relation to early attachment so an individual with avoidant attachment will be more
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