PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Active Child, Diana Baumrind, High High
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Themes: nature and nurture, active child, sociocultural context, individual differences, children"s welfare. Provide education for children: socialization of children. Children acquire beliefs, values, and behaviours that the culture finds important. Pass down values of the culture, customs. The family as a social system: direct and indirect influences, social managers. Indirect- modeling their parents behaviour: the changing family system. More single adults, people are marrying later. More remarriages because there are more divorces. Parental socialization during childhood and adolescence: two major dimensions of parenting. Friendly, sociable, get along with parents and peers. Internalized moral standards: profile of unwanted children ( czechoslovakian study) More often brought in for psychiatric care. Less popular with peers: love isn"t enough; children become increasingly difficult if parents don"t provide rules and guidance. 4: authoritative low dependence, uninvolved parenting. Low in warmth and discipline: behavioural control vs.