Child Psych ch 10,11,12

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Phonology

Languages sound sytem

Phonemes

The smallest unit of sound that effects meaning
EX: CAT (C A T)-All 3 effect meaning, so 3

also: TH, CH, TR, SC, QU all are 1 because they make one sound

Morphology

Languages meaning system

Morphemes

Smallest units of meaning; a word or part of a word that cannot be broken into smaller meaning full parts (prefixes/suffixes/rootwords)
EX: FARMER-farm and er, which makes it a person
TEACHER- Teach ER
DEROOT- DE root

also: ing, ed and before word, pre-, -tion, -ing, -ed, -er

Syntax

Rules by which words are arranged in sentences

(adj goes BEFORE noun)

the pretty girl walked into class
NOT
the girl pretty walked into class

Semantics

Rules for how words can be organized with respect to meaning

EX: The bicycle talked to boy into buying a candy bar...Grammatically correct, but DOESNT MAKE SENSE!!

Pragmatics

Rules for appropriate use of language in different situations.
(unwritten rules we learn which guide our behavior)
how you adress someone who is older:mr, mrs
swearing, manners, using childlike speach to children, applying appropriate emotions to words, voice volume is situations

Language Developement:
INFANCY

Cooing (1 to 2 months)

vowel like noises

pleasent 'oooo'

Language Developement:
BABBELING

(4 MONTHS)

Long strings of consenant vowel combinations 'bababababa'

Deaf Babies can babble, but to develope past this stage you need to hear human speech

Normal babies continue to babble even after 1st words

Language Developement:
GESTURES

(6-12 MONTHS)

begin pointing and showing

Gesture experiment:
Iverson and Goldin Meadows

10 children, 10-12 months old.
Observed 8 times: play time/mealtime
Recorded attempts to direct the adults attention. (no ritual acts like kisses/patty cake)

3 types of gestures:

Deictic Gestures: pointing at an object so adult can see it.

Conventional Gestures:we as a society are familiar with; make a face and shake head, nodding, waving

Ritualized gestures: Opening and closing of palm; sort of "give me" motion

Baby Sign Language

Important to both parent and baby; encourages gestures

WHY do it?
- Fine motor skills develope before verbal skills do
- You can figure out what baby is thinking

NOT before 6 months. This is a good time to start

Benefits: Reduces childs frustration, prevents temper tantrums, makes communication easier, Increases childs self confidence, Increases parent-child bond, and reach language milestoles earlier (doesnt deffer language growth, actually helps language develope sooner)

Language Developement
FIRST WORDS

10-15 MONTHS
-Infants indicate their first understanding of words at 8-12 months: importnant objects to child (mama, dada, pets, food ect)

Easiest sounds to make:
mama, dada, byebye, nigh night

Practicing sounding out words

18 MONTHS;
Juice: de, ju, dus, jus, jusi

Vocabularly Developement

18 MONTHS: 50

2 YEARS: 200

6 YEARS:10,000

Overextension

Application of words too broadly

EX: Cars for busses, trains for trucks, all 4 legged aminals are doggies

Not yet learn to accomidate

Underextension

Application of words too narrowly

Dads yellow car is a car

A Grizzly bear isnt a bear because their teddy bear is a bear

Telegraphic Speech

(18-24 months)
Focus on high content words and leave out smaller words

Ex: "Mommy shoe now", or "go car!"

3 YEARS

3, 4, and 5 word combinations

4-5 YEARS

Change speech to suit situation (Pragmatics)
Child directed speech; short simple sentences, high pitched voice, repeat important phrases

Overuse morphemes
"my foots hurt"

6-10 YEARS

Appreciate multiple meanings of words; metaphors, jokes, puns

(to write without a broken pencil is pointless)

Emotions

Sunjective reactions to the enviroment

Why are emotions important?

They help us releate to others, help us to react to different situations properly, let others know how we feel

This allows us to establish relationships

Ability to communicate feelings and interprete others feeelings leads to social success

Linked to childrens physical health. Deprived enviroments where children dont get enough emotional connections

Genetic-Maturational

amount of physical and social stimulation must be present for the emotion to occur.

Smiling in Infants

Capable at 46 weeks

Learn to smile

Parents may reinforce by smiling in return, hugging, holding. Kids continue to do this because of posative reinforcement (operant conditioning)

When you want them to decrease a behavior you can model, imitate, or punish.

Cognitive persepcitve on emotional developement

Emotions are teh result of assimilation and accomidation of information into schemas

Smiling can be a tension reduction

fear comes from when you don’t understand what something is, but you have assimilated smiling so you are comforted when you see it.

Fuctionalist persepective on emotional developement

Emotions help us achieve goals and addapt to the enviroment.

Maybe sadness will motivate you to do better next time so you wont feel sad.

If you learn to be afraid of nakes then it keeps you safe.

anger: terms of goals, you can get your way; lets people know that ‘this isn’t ok’, a way of protecting yourself.

Primary emotions in infancy

Joy, sadness, disgust, fear, suprise, intrest

Across ALL cultures. present in facial expressions

Ways to Communicate emotions

Crying:most important mechanism, their only way to communicate, we just want it to stop so we do whatever we need to make it stop. When we respond the wrong way this can result in shaken baby syndrome.

Smiling:can still become attached to baby even when baby cries a lot. Parents need this smiling
-Reflexive Smile (early WEEKS):spontaneous and depend on the infants internal state; when full, during REM sleep, not because of something you did.
-Social Smile (2-3 months):result of external stimuli, especially familiar human faces

Laughter (3-4 MONTHS)-2 years
-reflects faster processing at 2 yrs start to use as a deliberate social sign, will use to get adults attention

Fear

stranger anxiety; first appearance around 6 mos., becomes more intense around 9 mos., and peaks around 1 yr.

what factors influence stranger anxiety:

-child’s temperament, shy, passive children tend to experience stronger stranger anxiety.

-Past experiences with strangers; if a child isn’t left with strangers often then the fear will be stronger.
-Control over the situation; monkey with symbols study, when the child had no control it scared them more. When they had the control then they were interested.

-Stranger; adult vs. child: children elicit the least amount of fear, this is adaptive because adults pose more threat than another child does. ; behavior: there are things that a stranger can do to make children less fearful. Be cheerful, friendly

Social Referencing

look to others to know how to act; for children typically look to caregiver

Separation Protest

Fear of being seporated from care giver

(15 MONTHS)

Attachment style can affect this but there is still an underlying fear of separation.

Anger

newborns express generalized anxiety to a variety of unpleasant experiences. Crying.

16-18mos. Anger expressions increase in intensity and frequency; temper tantrums, push, pull hair, bite, scratching, bang head, hit siblings.

Increase with age? Worst thing to do is make a child feel helpless/defenseless, a new ability to express some emotions that they didn’t have before, more control over their body, have more options than ever before (can get into things, constantly being told No, as a result you get angry, and frustrated) Overcome obstacles and protect you

Early Childhood:

self conscious emotions (2nd YEAR.)

become aware that they are a separate and unique self; embarrassment, guilt, shame, pride, disappointment, envy

Pride:feel joy as a result of the successfully meeting a standard; potty training

Shame: feel poorly when you don’t meet the standards or goals; wish you could hide or disappear.

Guilt:feel poorly when you realize you have done something wrong; do something you know you aren’t supposed to, get caught, try to fix it.

What is attachment?

bond that forms around 7 MONTHS Between an infant and one or more regular caregivers;

what are signs? Someone tries to take them and they cry, parent needs to leave and child cries, being reassured or comforted by parent, being a social reference, wanting contact, modeling, smiling,

Freud –Psychoanalytic Theory

we are attached through food, breast, mother

PROBLEM:
this meant that fathers wouldn’t be attached.

Harlow-Learning Theory

monkey study: found that they are attached because of caregiver not because of food

baby monkeys taken from mother given to a terrycloth doll, but not food, instinctive need to cling to another body for emotional attachment, another wire feeding area, only when very hungry does he go to the bottle. 22hrs a day on cloth monkey, only when starving did they go to other. If they are returned to other monkeys outside of isolation they found they would adjust

Bowlby : Ethological Theory

both infant and caregiver form attachments; adults attach just as much as children

Ainsworth, strange situation

-put children in room with stranger, parent left, watched to see how children reacted to parent leaving and returning.)
-Reunion: mother leaves baby along with a stranger two times and the returns two times>
-first time baby and stranger, second time baby alone and then stranger enters
-looked at how baby responded to caregiver when returned
-when the mother is able to calm the child right away this is a sign of a secure attachment

Attachment styles based on the strange situation

securely attached babies
-caregiver consistently is there for the infant; quickly comforted, feels safe to explore when caregiver is present

insecure avoidant babies
-caregiver consistently not there for the infant; actively avoided the caregiver, turned away, increased their distance and paid no attention.

Insecure resistant babies –anxious ambivalent
-Caregiver inconsistent in meeting infant’s needs; often cling to caregiver, then resist by fighting closeness, kicking, pushing away.

Disorganized
-caregiver is abusive or absent; approach head down, freeze for a few seconds, child responds like an animal that has been abused

Disney and Death Article:
Main ideas about death

under 5 they do not understand that death is final and inevitable

5-9 death is final but old people are only ones who die,

10 irreversible, permanent, inevitable

Comprehension depends on two factors

experience
*actual experiences and what they have been told

Developmental level
*comprehension abilities

Parents Role in understanding of death

parents use confusing language or not discuss it because they are trying to protect their children.

Don’t discuss b/c they think it is too frightening, unpleasant, or unnecessary

when they do explain typically confusing; instead of teaching they are trying to protect

Purpose of Disney and Death Study

how is Disney influencing the comprehension of death in children

do Disney movies portrayals of death influence children’s comprehension of death?

Disney and Death Study Design

describe and analyze the portrayal of death in animated Disney films
2 coders looked at 10 films – selected only if death occurred
-snow white, bambi, sleeping beauty, the little mermaid, beauty and the beast, the lion king, the hunchback, Hercules, mulan, tarzan

They were chosen for the death scenes and for the time period. Those earlier movies portrayed death differently than they do today.

Scene 1:
Lion King; Mufasa’s Death Scene

shown because of the severity of this death scene, the guilt that samba feels is very serious for a child to comprehend. This could also be difficult because Mufasa and Scar are brothers, a child may have a hard time understanding how one could do this to another. It is clear that Mufasa is dead. Spirit form

Scene 2:
Snow White comes alive

The intro is words explaining what the dwarves did for snow white and how she ended up in the glass coffin. Death isn’t perceived as it is now because the prince is able to kiss and wake her. If she were truly dead this of course would not be possible. Reversible, come back in same form.

Scene 3:
Beauty and the Beast

Gaston shoots the beast and inevitably due to this Gaston falls off the roof. This one was because it is just implied that Gaston is dead.

Variables in death and disney

Character Status: Protagonist – good guy, antagonist – bad guy

Depiction of death: explicit death – see it, implicit death – assume dead don’t come back, sleep death, prolonged sleep due to spell, not really dead

Death Status: Permanent/final, reversible (reversible – same form you come back from dead) or (reversible- altered you come back as a spirit)

Emotional Reaction
How characters respond to death – pos. neg. or lacking emotion

Causality:
was it an accident or on purpose, justified or unjustified

Conclusions of Death in Disney

Character status: protagonist and antagonist about equal = good and bad guys can die

Depiction of death: saw that more good guys died on screen, bad guys off screen, death of bad guys doesn’t matter

Death status: majority were permanent; only the good guys had a second chance at life in altered forms

Emotional Reactions: neg. most common for good guys; pos. emotion solely bad guys; bad guys get what they deserve
Causality: protagonist never killed on purpose, when bad guys die it was an accident, when good guys died it was intentional.


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