For this assignment you are to write A formal Write up takes the key terms from the reading and summary of each topic, looks for examples in the video reservoir. Please note the video name, state the term the behavior is an example of, UNDERLINE OR BOLD SAID TERM and then describe the example of the behavior that matches the term. Please DO NOT reiterate the text about the topic. Just include terms and examples of behavior. If you run out of examples you may discuss the discussion question, but the expectation is that for most topics you will have 1-1.5 pages of observations.
PLEASE NOTE THAT I WILL BE PROVIDING ALL OF THE SOURCES FOR THE PAPER AND YOU WON’T BE LOOKING UP ANY OUTSIDE SOURCES.
I HAVE ALSO PROVIDED AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE PAPER IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE.
Teachers prompt:
Childrearing/disciplinary style The style of child rearing–also called discipline–plays a role in helping the child do this.
Traditionally, developmental psychologists consider four distinct styles of disciplinary style: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and uninvolved. You will read about each of these styles in your text this week, comparing them to one another along three different dimensions: acceptance & involvement, control, and autonomy granting. When rated according to these three criteria, the authoritative style ranks highest, because it has a high level of acceptance for the child, makes demands that are reasonable for the child’s maturity level and age, and also uses control in a meaningful, non-coercive way. The other three styles all fail on at least one of these three dimensions. For instance, the permissive style scores high on warmth and acceptance, but poorly on control and autonomy granting. Authoritarian care givers, who are cold, overly controlling, and at times abusive, obviously do not score as highly. Likewise, uninvolved caregivers–who typically do not attend much to their children at all–will score low in all categories.
I want you to begin by reading pages 398-405 in your text. This will give you a good sense of what these four styles look like, and how they are ranked according to the above mentioned three criteria. Please read this with care. Especially, note how the authoritative style use a lot of verbal reasoning with the child, such that when they do something wrong, someone takes the time to explain to them WHY it was wrong, and how they made someone else feel with their actions. This verbal reasoning is called “induction”. Because young children aren’t good at taking other’s perspectives, (i.e., they don’t have the brain development to do this yet) they really need this explanation from adults in order to construct their internal moral code. Children who have authoritarian, permissive or uninvolved care givers don’t often get these explanations, thus it is much harder to them to understand how their actions influence others, and they struggle to construct an internal moral code that they can use to govern their behavior when the care giver is not immediately present.
PLEASE NOTE, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SEE PARENTS TO COMPLETE THIS OBSERVATION. You can look at how teachers, daycare workers, or even you yourself relate to children. What style
is used when the child is doing something wrong? You may notice that while the book suggests these four styles are distinct, in practice people often shift among them. So too, you may notice, that sometimes people combine these styles. Remember, one of the goals of this course is not just to “match” what you read about in the text with what you see, but to use those observations add complexity and detail to what the book says. If you see people shifting styles, or combining styles, you should report this, it’s neat! The discussion question is, “How concerned should we be about the rise in permissive parenting?