PSY 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Period, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Temporary Assistance For Needy Families
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The ability to adopt effectively in the face of threats to development: despite risk factors, ability to beat the odds . Risk factors: poverty, negative family interactions, parental divorce, job loss, mental illness, drug abuse. Personal characteristics: high intelligence, socially valuable talents, easygoing, sociable temperament, inhibit negative emotions (self-control, adapt to change well. Characteristics of social environment: close relationship with role model (parent, grandparent, teacher, positive older sibling) Monitoring: positive friendships, organized home, community resources (school, health care, libraries, recreation) 600-1500: writers and artists distinguish childhood from adulthood, childcare manuals, laws protecting children from mistreatment, and leniency toward children with laws, religion sometimes depicted children as possessed, in need of purification. 1600s - puritans: children born evil and stubborn, must be taught, harsh and _________________ child rearing, children routinely beaten, regarded child rearing as one of most important obligations, taught children to use _________________ to tell right from wrong. 1700s: conceptions of childhood more humane, john locke:
