STUDY GUIDE
CHAPTER 9
– What is attachment?
– Bowlby’s theory (Evolution)
– Harlow’s Primate experiment (Contact Comfort)
– Ainsworth
o Strange situation procedure
o Stranger anxiety
o Separation anxiety
o Secure attachment
o Insecure avoidant attachment
o Insecure resistant attachment (called anxious ambivalent in some texts)
– Long term outcomes of attachment
– What is temperament?
o Types
o Gender differences
– self conscious emotions
– emotional development (overall stages)
– suicide and resiliency
CHAPTER 10
– I-self vs. me-self
– self representation
– self concept
– self evaluation
– self esteem
– personal agency
– self efficacy
– get familiar with the development of I and me selves
– Social comparison
– Real vs. ideal selves
– Adolescent search for identity (Erikson’s crisis and commitment)
– Ethnic Identity
– Self regulation and Impulse control
– Gender
o Role
o Concept
o Sex- typed behavior
– puberty
o early vs. late maturation issues for both sexes
– Sexual orientation
– Theories about gender development
– Gender differences in skills
CHAPTER 12
– what is friendship
– Development of friendships through different ages
– Coordinated imitation
– Play based friends
– Loyal and faithful friends
– Intimate friends
– Gender segregation
o Why
– Cliques vs. crowds
– Romantic relationships
– What is play and why is it necessary
– Types of play
– Stages of play
o sensorimotor
o sociodramatic
o play in adolescence
– Peer nomination
– Popularity
o Minorities
o Outcomes for rejection
