Title: Mary Ainsworth and Attachment Theory
Author: Richard Brodie
Date Published: 2012
Why Relevant and Summary: This website has a good video that shows secure attachment with an infant and her mother. It also discusses the other types of attachment; Anxious-Ambivalent Insecure Attachment and Anxious-Avoidant insecure attachment.
How this influenced my thinking: This web based article allowed me to get a deeper understanding of the three different types of attachment that Ainsworth studied.
Credibility of source: website is secured by GeoTrust
Title: Attachment Theory
Author: Saul McLeod
Published: 2009
Why Relevant: It's a pretty thorough overview of attachment theory and its theorists.
How It Influenced My Thinking: It cleared up some concepts that our text book didn't get deep enough into.
Credibility of Source:Simply Psychology, author used plenty of references
Title: Attachment Theory
Author: Saul McLeod
Date Published: 2009
Why Relevant and Summary: Discusses John Bowlby's attachment theory. It goes through stages of attachment and breaks it down by age. It also refers to the two main theories of attachment (not just Bowlby's) and discusses a older study done on monkeys regarding attachment.
How This Influenced My Thinking: It emphasized an important point for me, which was "attachments were most likely to form with those who responded accurately to the baby's signals, not the person they spent most time with."
Credibility of Source: High
Title: Attachment Thoery
Author: Saul McLeod
Date Published: 2009
Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because of what it has to say about attachment theory. A huge focus is on Bowlby and what he brought to the table in the discussion of the importance of attachment in human development.
How This Influenced my Thinking: It just through out facts that I was able to think about to further my knowledge of attachment theory.
Credibility of Source: Uses numerous sources
Title: Attachment Theory
Author: Saul McLeod
Date Published: 2009
Why Relevant and Summary: this webpage gives a good look at the attachment theory and how it applies to people. It also walks through the different stages of attachment and where children are at in different points in their lives
How This Influenced My Thinking: I felt like it gave a little more information and helped to clear some things up that I was wondering about in the textbook.
Credibility of Source: pretty good, well written and well cited information in the article.
Title: Attachment Theory
Author: Saul McLeod
Date published: 2009
Why Relevant and Summary: This article describes the theory of attachment well and the different stages of attachment.
How this influenced my thinking: I found it very interesting that Bowlby thought that there is a link between separations with the mom at an early age and maladjustments later on.
Credibility of Source: It is from the simply psychology website, seems credible.
Title- Mary Ainsworth
Author- Saul Mcleod
Date published-2008
Why relevant and summary- This site goes into depth about who Mary Ainsworth is, what she did for psychology, and how she came to develop her theory of secure attachment. The site gives a lot of information on the different attachment styles and what they mean, as well as providing a video that illustrates the different types of attachment.
How this influenced my thinking- This influenced my thinking by allowing me to see how crucial of a role attachment plays in the development of children.
Credibility of source- very credible and offers many citations
Title: What About the Children
Author: Strathearn, L. et al. (2009)
Date Published: 2009
Why Relevant and Summary: Gives clear detail by people who stay on top of current research on the best way to nurture babies
How This Influenced My Thinking: I think everyone should do everything possible to put infants in constant contact with their mom's for as long as possible to develop loving secure people capable of mature relationships.
Credibility of Source: The people on the board have very good creditials.
Title: Understanding Childhood Obesity
Author: Len Saunders
Date Published: October 23, 2012
Why Relevant and Summary: This article reflects upon many of the socio-cultural factors which have aided in our childhood obesity epidemic.
How This Influenced My Thinking: I showed me how our problem of obesity cannot be limited to diet and exercise, but is the perfect storm of sendentary/obesity-promoting occurances within our culture.
Credibility of Source: 6 - He has served on many board with education & influence in childhood obesity.
Title: Searching for Identity in College
Author: Nicoll Laikola
Date of Publication: November 29, 2011
Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because it involves the identity that is being talked about in college. learning who you truly are and who you want to be. it explains the transition as a senior in high school to a freshman in college.
How This Influenced My Thinking: It made me realize that every single person goes through some sort of identity crisis in college. they all handle it different and they deal with these new change sin ways that help benefit them for the long run.
Credibility: it came from the LifeBound website seems pretty credible
Title: A review of successful aging models: Proposing proactive coping as an important additional strategy
Author: Carolijn Ouwehand, Denise T.D. de Ridder, Jozien M. Bensing
Date Published: Aug. 3, 2006
Why relevant and summary: This is a really great look into aging successfully and what that process entails. It delves into selective optimization with compensation. The authors argue that proactive coping - attempting to prevent potential stressors that are the cause of this decrease in resources - may be a valuable strategy for successful aging. The authors also present this theory as a method of postponing disengagement from daily activities.
How this influenced my thinking: I have not given much thought to aging, although I know it is happening and will continue to happen. I've always just kind of viewed the elderly with a distant form of respect coupled with a bit of sorrow. Let's face it, who wants to get old? Yet, this will happen to all of us unless (god forbid) some unforseen tragedy strikes first. Reading about ways to gracefully and successfully age and avoid or postpone disengagement, will go a long way as people enter older adulthood. When I reach older adulthood, I hope to be as active as that 106 year old man who started running marathons in his 80s!
Title: The Tribal Mind: Moral Reasoning and Public Discourse
Author: Arnold Kling
Date Published: April 26, 2012
Why Relevant and Summary: As soon as I saw this article I thought it was great. In a very interesting way it explain what moral reasoning is and how it is developed, influenced upon and used in today's complicated world. It taps on issues that we are faced with daily, especially coming after a presidential election where the "morals" of each side where being discussed and with a fierce public discourse. This essay also discusses some great books written about the topic and the author does a great job at explaining how our own personal moral values and beliefs are used to justify our behavior and manipulate others; and also how these moral decisions are very often based on instinct and rapid judgment rather than rational thought. The author maintains the position that even though we have come along as a society we still behave sometimes in tribal manner, and that goes not only for how we conduct business or personal relationships but also how this great country of ours is run.
How This Influenced My Thinking: As a young person, and as a mother of two young boys, I took in all the information that I got from this article; I think I am going to read it again and also read the books that were used to support some of the thinking behind it. I believe that when someone truly understand where someone else is coming from it will be easier to comprehend their thinking and the commitment that they have to their moral compass. Also interesting to find out was how often rushed moral judgment occurs in our society, and how that directly impact all of us. It was a great article with a great deal of food for thought.
Credibility of Source: It was published on "The American" an online magazine of the American Enterprise Institute and its author is a member of the Financial Markets Working Group at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University
Title: Sleepless Nights May Put The Aging Brain At Risk Of Dementia
Author: Patti Neighmond
Date Published: August 27, 2012
Why Relevant and Summary: As we age, our body's sleep cycle naturally changes. As teenagers our body's clock (influences by internal temperature) induces sleep from about midnight to late morning, while as adults our body's clock induces sleep from about 8pm to 4am; therefore our body's needs change as we age. Plus, 40% of older adults suffer from sleep problems such as insomnia. The lack of deep sleep, and specifically of REM sleep, is connected to memory loss and can lead to dementia. This is relevant in our develop as humans in that awareness of our sleep habits and patterns have more of an effect on us that just a temporary sleepiness the next day, but in the long run it can effect our ability to have better memory as we age.
Credibility of Source: The article comes from NPR's Health Blog. There is also a sound recording of the article with clips from the author on the webpage. The autor is Psychiatrist Kristine Yaffe of the University of California, San Francisco. Very credible.
Title: Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory
Author: Dede Paquette and John Ryan
Date Published: 2001
Why Relevant and Summary: Explains Bronfenbrenner's theory and connects it to modern child development and compares this to child development when the economy was more industrial, less technological. It also explains Bronfenbrenner's concerns with our technological world. The 5th page looks at the human body as a part of a person's microsystem, which was fascinating, especially since the textbook doesn't seem to consider this.
How This Influenced My Thinking: Introduced the idea of the human body as being part of the microsystem - new to me! Also, I learned that this model can play a big role in influencing public policies, which is refreshing because as a student, it's easy to get caught up in this thinking that the classroom stuff isn't relevant or doesn't easily apply to the real world… but it can!
Credibility of Source: Pretty good - the work cites a lot of educational resources, and I read the company profile, which seems to be run by qualified people.
Title: Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory
Author: Dede Paquette-John Ryan
Date published: N.D.
Why relevant and summary: This shows a picture representing the different layers of the environmental systems that affect the development and nicely explains each one including the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem.
How this influenced my thinking: It showed me how everything in your life affects you and those around you.
Credibility of source: Sites many different references.
Title: Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems
Author: Dede Paquette and John Ryan
Date Published: 7/12/2001
Why Relevant and Summary: This paper breaks down Bronfenbrenner's theory while giving examples of each of the five systems of the theory. Not only does the paper breakdown all five steps and give examples in each step, but it also goes on to talk about nature Vs. nurture and the implications for practicing this theory.
How This Influenced My Thinking: This paper has influenced my thinking in that it made me realize how this theory could be brought into real life. I did not fully understand the concept of actually practicing this theory until reading this paper.
Credibility of Source: This source is reliable because it was written and revised at a university, and also there are resources backing up all the facts stated in this paper.
Author: Dede Paquette - John Ryan
Date Published: July 12th 2001
Why Relevent: This was a quick and to the point overview of the theory. It simplified the levels so I could wrap my head around it. The only drawback was that it was a little too short anf sweet.
How This Influenced My Thinking- It just cleared up some of the levels for me.
Credibility: From USD website
Title: Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory
Author: Dede Paquette and John Ryan
Date Published: July 12, 2001
Why Relevant and Summary: It gives an in depth overview of Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory while analyzing and providing examples of the many components to the healthy development of a child.
How This Influenced My Thinking: It hasn't particularly influenced my thinking but has given a better understanding of how the theory applies.
Credibility of Source: Good- (.edu website)
Title: Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory
Author: Dede Paquette - John Ryan
Date published: 7/12/01
Why relevant and summary: This site is relevant because it explains what Bronfenbrenner's theory is and what it encompasses. As well as stating what the theory is, the site also goes over in detail, all the different systems associated with Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory. There is also an illustration with various terms that provides links to sites that explain the implications of each theory.
How it influenced my thinking: This site influenced my thinking in a positive way because it broke down what each system was, what it entailed, and gave examples of what was being discussed.
Credibility of source: The source is very credible and is riddled with citations and works cited pages. The link to it also ends in usd.edu which means it is probably a site made by colleges for colleges.