Chapter 6
Psychosocial Development During the First Three Years
Focus: Mary Catherine Bateson, Anthropologist
Foundations of Psychosocial Development
•	Emotions

•	Temperament

•	Earliest Social Experiences: The Infant in the Family

What’s Your View?
Developmental Issues in Infancy

•	Erikson: Developing Trust

•	Developing Attachments

Attachment Behaviors in Strange Situation

•	Secure

•	Insecure-Avoidant

•	Insecure-Resistant

•	Disorganized/
	Disoriented
Developmental Issues in Infancy
•	Emotional Communication with Caregivers: Mutual Regulation

•	Stranger Anxiety and Separation Anxiety

•	Social Referencing

Developmental Issues in Toddlerhood
•	The Emerging Sense of Self

•	Development of Autonomy

•	Socialization and Internalization: Developing a Conscience
 
How do infants and toddlers interact with siblings and other children?

Children of Working Parents 
•	Effects of Parental Employment

•	The Impact of Early Childcare
Window on the World
Fatherhood in Three Cultures
Digging Deeper
How a Mother’s Depression Affects Mutual Regulation