Personality Development

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Personality Development

• Are your parents to blame?

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Humors to Temperament

• Humors
• Blood Cheerful
• Yellow Bile Fiery
• Black Bile Sad
• Phlegm Slow
• Two Themes
• Biological Basis
• Emotionally Based

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Temperament

• Characteristics, moods, activity level,
  emotional reactivity in children

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Temperament (Jerome Kagan)

• Inhibited
• Shy, fearful of unfamiliar
• Uninhibited
• Little negative reaction to unfamiliar or novel
  stimuli

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Attachment

• Close emotional bond between infant caregiver
• Separation Anxiety
• Distress shown when separated from attachment

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Harlows Monkeys

• Contact Comfort

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Attachment Theories

• Mary Ainsworth
• Attachments differ in quality
• Developed the strange situation paradigm

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Attachment Styles

• Secure
• (65) need mom, but play comfortably
• Anxious-Ambivalent
• (15) anxious in the presence absence of mom
• Avoidant
• (20) doesnt need mom

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Attraction Attachment
Secure Adults (65) Get close to others, trusting relationships, fewest divorces
Anxious-Ambivalent (20) Preoccupied with love, expect rejection, volatile relationships
Avoidant (24) Difficult to get close, lack intimacy trust
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Group Socialization Theory

• Children are influenced by their peer-group more
  than parents

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Group Socialization Theory

• The natural environment of children is the peer
  group

Different
Birth
Same
Teens
Different
Adulthood