1 st Assignment Before completing this discussion, be sure to review Chapter 8 in your text, the “Attachment Style” article, as well as the Harlow’s Studies on Dependency in Monkeys , and What are Emotions videos.  You may also want to review the recommended multimedia, Konrad Lorenz Experiment with Geese video. After examining the research in human development presented in your required resources, complete the following discussion: Psychologists have developed many theories that attempt to capture how love grows, including the nature of attachment. Watch the brief video illustrating Harry Harlow's studies on contact comfort and examine the emotional domain of human development (specifically, emotional attachment), and discuss individual differences in attachment. Your initial post should contain the following: Explain why individual differences in attachment matter. What are their known sources? Describe the influences that family, or lack thereof, and environment have on the development of infants. Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to care giving style. Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment may be linked to infants’ temperament.   Your initial post must be at least 300 words 2 nd Assignment Before completing this discussion, be sure to review Chapter 10 in your text and the Factors that Influence Sexual Orientation and Gender Socialization , videos. After examining the research in human development presented in your required resources, complete the following discussion: Ideas and perceptions of gender and sexuality are strongly dependent on cultural factors and influences.  Define gender and sexuality. What is the difference between the two? Describe the influences of culture on these aspects of human development. In addition, examine how stereotypes and other cultural factors influence our perception of acceptable expressions of gender and sexuality. Give examples illustrating how a particular expression of gender or sexuality may be acceptable in one culture and unacceptable in another. Predict how the expression or repression of a person’s gender and/or sexuality may influence the person’s interpersonal development. Your initial post must be at least 300 .

1. 1
st
Assignment
Before completing this discussion, be sure to review Chapter 8
in your text, the “Attachment Style” article, as well as the
Harlow’s Studies on Dependency in Monkeys
, and
What are Emotions
videos. You may also want to review the recommended
multimedia,
Konrad Lorenz Experiment with Geese
video. After examining the research in human development
presented in your required resources, complete the following
discussion:
Psychologists have developed many theories that attempt to
capture how love grows, including the nature of attachment.
Watch the brief video illustrating Harry Harlow's studies on
contact comfort and examine the emotional domain of human
development (specifically, emotional attachment), and discuss
individual differences in attachment. Your initial post should
contain the following:
Explain why individual differences in attachment matter. What
are their known sources?
Describe the influences that family, or lack thereof, and
environment have on the development of infants.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment
may be linked to care giving style.
Discuss the extent to which individual differences in attachment
may be linked to infants’ temperament.
Your initial post must be at least 300 words
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2. nd
Assignment
Before completing this discussion, be sure to review Chapter 10
in your text and the
Factors that Influence Sexual Orientation
and
Gender Socialization
, videos. After examining the research in human development
presented in your required resources, complete the following
discussion:
Ideas and perceptions of gender and sexuality are strongly
dependent on cultural factors and influences. Define gender
and sexuality. What is the difference between the two? Describe
the influences of culture on these aspects of human
development.
In addition, examine how stereotypes and other cultural factors
influence our perception of acceptable expressions of gender
and sexuality. Give examples illustrating how a particular
expression of gender or sexuality may be acceptable in one
culture and unacceptable in another. Predict how the expression
or repression of a person’s gender and/or sexuality may
influence the person’s interpersonal development.
Your initial post must be at least 300