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Exam 2 CH 10
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In the Middle Childhood children become to | Describe themselves in terms of psychological traits, Compare their own characteristics with those of their peers and speculate about the causes of their strengths and weakness |
Self Concept | These transformations in self understanding have a major impact on children |
Social Comparisons | Judgement of their appearance abilities and behavior in relation to those of others . Where 4-6 years old can compare their own performance to that of one peer older children can compare multiple individuals including themselves |
Perspective taking skills | especially an improved ability to infer what others are thinking are crucial for the development of a self concept based on personality traits |
Overindulgent | Parenting is correlated with unrealistically high self esteem which also undermines development images and thus are also likely to be hostile and aggressive |
Attributions | Are our common everyday explanation for the causes of behavior (our answers to the questions why did I or another person do that) |
Mastery Oriented Children | Seeks information on how best to increase their ability through effort |
Learned Helplessness | Focus on obtaining positive and avoiding negative evaluations of their fragile sense of ability |
Emotional Development | Greater self awareness and social sensitivity support gains in emotional competence in middle childhood |
During Middle Childhood self conscious | During the middle childhood self conscious emotions of pride and guilt become clearly governed by personal responsibility |
Self Understanding gains in with emotional understanding are supported by | Cognitive development and Social Experiences |
Problem Centered Coping | Children appraise the situation as changeable identify the difficulty and decide what to do about it |
Fixed View of personalty traits | Are children who believe that personality traits are fixed rather than changeable often judge others as either "good"or "bad" |
Overly High Self Esteem | Children (and adults) with overly high self esteem are more likely to hold racial and ethnic prejudices (and prejudices of all types) i |
Social world in which people are sorted into groups | The more adults highlights group distinctions for children and the less interracial contact children experiencing the more likely children are to display prejudice |
Peer Groups | Collectives that generate unique values and standards for behavior and social structure of leaders and followers |
Peer Acceptance | Refers to likability the extent to which a child is viewed by a group of agemates as a worthy social partner |
Social Preferences | Asking children to identify classmates whom they like very much or like very little |
Social Prominence | Children judgments of whom most of their classmates admire |
Children reveal 4 board categories | Popular Children, Rejected Children, Controversial Children and Neglected Children |
Popular Children | Receive many positive votes |
Rejected Children | Get Many negative votes (are disliked) |
Controversial Children | Receive many votes both positive and negative (are both liked and disliked) |
neglected Children | Are seldom chosen either positively or negatively |
Popular Pro social Children | Usually combine academic and social competence - They perform well in school and communicating with peers in sensitive friendly and cooperative ways |
Popular antisocial children | Maybe tough boys who are athletically skilled but are poor students who caused trouble and defy adult authority or rationally aggressive boys and girl who ignore, exclude and spread rumors about other children enchaining their own status |