This document summarizes key concepts in child psychology from the theories of Jean Piaget and attachment. It discusses Piaget's ideas of schemas and object permanence. It also outlines Piaget's stages of cognitive development and introduces concepts like conservation, egocentrism, and representational thought. The document then discusses imprinting and critical periods in animal development as well as attachment, stranger anxiety, and separation anxiety in human children. It concludes by describing the different types of attachment styles in children.

1. PSYCHOLOGY 3.2
OF CHILDREN
Rose, Harsh, Jordan,Taylor

2. Jean Piaget
 Children develop schemas, mental
representations of world
-accommodation fitting schema to object
- assimilation, fitting new object in schema
 Object Permanence
 Understanding objects you can no longer see still
exist

3. Representational Thought
 Being able to mentally picture a object
 Conservation
 A quantity doesn’t change with appearances
 Egocentric
 Seeing your perspective, but being unable to
comprehend others

4. Cognitive Development
 Sensor motors Stage
 Bodily sensations
 Preoperational
 Mental images and symbols
 Concrete
 Using logic schemas and only understand
concrete ideas
 Formal
 Able to solve abstract problems

5. Animals
 Imprinting
 Latching of emotions to another being
 Critical Period
 The time period of best learning period

6. Human
 Attachment
 Time from ages 6 months to 3 years when a child
is attached to their mother.
 StrangerAnxiety
 A fear of others, unknown, that only fades with
their mother’s presence
 Separation Anxiety
 A sudden separation from the mother, creating
unease in the child

7. Attachment
 SecureAttachment
 Explores a need to be close
 Avoidant
 Avoid and ignore the mother both when she
leaves and when she returns
 Disorganized
 They behave inconsistently
 Resistant
 The child is not upset when their mother leaves,
but rejects her when she returns.

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