Week 7 · Readings & resources

Week 7 — Readings & Resources

Child Development Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 7 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 57–70 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (17–22 min total)

① Feelings that point at people

Chapter 7, Section “Name the early emotions: smiles, wariness, and checking a face” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Early emotions” · Remember: stranger anxiety and separation anxiety commonly appear in the second half of the first year, and both show that a bond exists.

Emotional and Social Development: 8 to 12 Months — HealthyChildren.org — the American Academy of Pediatrics' family page on this age, which describes a baby who once stayed calm with strangers starting to tense up, and separation distress as a sign of a healthy attachment to parents. Its ages for the peak of separation anxiety and its remark about mirrors are the page's own; this course pins mirror self-recognition to the second year. (reading, 4–6 min)
Social Referencing in Infants and Toddlers — First Up: Champions for Early Education — a two-minute tip for infant and toddler teachers from an early-education nonprofit: an exploring baby looks to a caregiver's face for information, tries a risk after a smile, and may stop after a fearful look. Its advice to use the voice and open body language when a mask hides the face comes from a time when caregivers wore masks; read it as a reminder that the caregiver's reaction is the information the child checks. Use it while completing the Week-7 module overview. (video, 2 min) (captions: automatic)
8–12 Months Old: Separation Anxiety — IntermountainParents — a one-minute clip from a health system's parenting channel: a baby who cries and reaches out when a parent leaves is upset at first and then settles, and practicing short separations teaches the baby that a parent who leaves comes back. Its starting age and its tips are the video's own; this course says separation anxiety commonly appears in the second half of the first year. This builds on Week 6's work on object permanence: missing a parent who has left depends on knowing the parent still exists out of sight, a link the chapter draws rather than the video. (video, 1 min) (captions: automatic)

② A child's own style

Chapter 7, Section “Describe temperament: a child's own style” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Temperament and fit” · Remember: temperament is the child's own steady style, and goodness of fit is how well the setting matches it.

Temperament in your baby and child — AboutKidsHealth — a children's hospital's family page that defines temperament as a child's behavioural style, lists nine characteristics such as activity level and adaptability, and names the easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up types. Its percentages for each type are the page's own figures; this course pins and keys none, and it never uses a type as a label for a child. (reading, 6–9 min)
Infant Temperament — Hill Physicians — a physician group's interview that describes temperament as a personal style of responding to experiences and walks through traits such as intensity, adaptability, and approach or withdrawal. Listen for its example of a baby who dislikes being held by relatives, and ask yourself which part of that is temperament and which part is attachment. (video, 5 min) (captions: automatic)

③ Comfort, bonds, and the Strange Situation

Chapter 7, Section “Test the feeding idea: Harlow, Bowlby, and the secure base” · Session 2, Segment 3, “Harlow and Bowlby” · Remember: comfort, not feeding alone, underlies attachment, and the Strange Situation sorts patterns of behavior, never children.

Harlow's Horrifying Monkey Experiments — SciShow Psych — a science explainer that sets Harlow's cloth and wire surrogate mothers against the earlier idea that babies bond with whoever feeds them, and names Bowlby on the other side of that debate. Its second half describes Harlow's later isolation studies, which are distressing, and explains why they would not pass an ethics review now. (video, 5 min) (captions: creator)
Monkeys and Morality: Crash Course Psychology #19 — CrashCourse — an animated survey that runs from Harlow's monkeys through Ainsworth's Strange Situation to self-recognition in a mirror. Watch the first 7½ minutes, through the part on self-concept; the parenting styles and moral reasoning that follow belong to later weeks. It names only three attachment styles, so add the disorganized pattern from Main and Solomon yourself, and treat its percentages as the video's own. When it says sensitive mothers "raised" securely attached children, it reads an association as a cause and leaves out every caregiver but the mother. (video, 12 min) (captions: creator)
Mary Ainsworth: Strange Situation Experiment — Simply Psychology — a psychology-explainer site's walk through the procedure's episodes of separation and reunion, its three original patterns, and the disorganized pattern credited to Main and Solomon. Read the procedure and the three pattern sections, then the criticisms about culture; its percentages are the page's own, not numbers this course keys. (reading, 10–15 min)

④ Trust first, then autonomy

Chapter 7, Section “Place the records on Erikson's first two stages” · Session 2, Segment 5, “Erikson's first two stages” · Remember: trust vs. mistrust comes first and autonomy vs. shame and doubt second, and their ages are approximate.

Trust vs. Mistrust and Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt — KJ Teaches — a teacher's lesson on Erikson's first two stages that ties trust to responsive feeding, holding, and diaper changes, and autonomy to a toddler who can now walk and explore. It begins by separating psychosocial theory from social learning theory, a useful review, and it links trust back to Harlow's monkeys. It is one teacher's recorded class lesson, so its references to handouts and earlier videos are to that class; its remarks on feeding intervals and on when a late walker needs an evaluation are the speaker's own, not guidance this course pins. (video, 7 min) (captions: automatic)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

Attachment theory, Cultural differences — Wikipedia — the free encyclopedia's article on attachment theory, deep-linked to its section on cultural differences; read that section for how children with several caregivers can be secure and how Strange Situation results vary from place to place, and skip the sections on adults and clinical practice. (reading, 5–8 min)

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