Developmental chapter 8 – Flashcards
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            between ages 2-6.
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        when do first friendships form?
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            when children converse, act out complementary roles and learn that their own desires for companionship and toys are best met when they consider others needs and interests.
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        early childhood friendship
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            as a means through which young children learn about themselves and their social world. Play permits preschoolers to try out new skills with little risk of criticism and failure.
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        How did erikson regard play
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            the set of attributes, abilities, attitudes and attitudes that an individual believes defines who he or she is.
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        self-concept
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            -Are very concrete.   -usually, they mention observable characteristics, such as their name, physical appearance, possessions and everyday behaviors.   -are often so bound up with specific possessions and actions that they spend much time asserting their rights to objects (MINE)
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        Preschoolers self concepts
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            the judgments we make about our own worth and the feelings associated with those judgments.
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        self-esteem
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            because they cannot distinguish between their desired and their actual competence, they usually rate their own ability as extremely high and underestimate task difficulty
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        What are preschoolers self-esteem like?
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            by age 3. children with a history of parental criticism of thier worth and performance give up easily when faced with a challenge and express shame and despondency after failing.
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        How does parental criticism of worth effect preschoolers?
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            between ages 2-6 children make strides in emotional abilities that are collectively called emotional competence
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        emotional competence
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            1. emotional understanding: becoming better able to talk about feelings and to respond appropriately to others emotional signals    2. emotional self regulation:comping with intense negative emotion    3. self-conscious emotions and empathy: both contribute to their developing sense of morality.
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        what is the order that emotional development occurs?
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            -they can refer to causes consequences, and behavioral signs of emotion.   -can predict what a playmate expressing a certain emotion might do next.   -they come up with effective ways to relieve others negative feelings IE hugging someone who is sad.   -can not interpret situations with conflicting cues.
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        What is the extent to which preschoolers can understand emotion
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            -a form of emotional self-regulation.  -Inhibiting impulses and shifting attention- also continues to be vital in managing emotion during early childhood
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        effortful control
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            -feelings that involve injury to or enhancement of their sense of self.
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        self conscious emotions
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            -as self-concepts develop, preschoolers become increasingly sensitive to praise and blame or to the possibility of such feedback.   -they depend on the messages of adults to know when to feel proud, ashamed or guilty.
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        self conscious emotions in preschoolers
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            -feel with another person and responding emotionally in a similar way  -an important motivator of prosocial, or alruistic behavior.
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        Empathy
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            actions that benefit another person without any expected reward for the self.
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        prosocial, or altruistic behavior.
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            No, for some children empathizing with an upset adult or peer escalates intp personal distress. In trying o reduce these feeling, the child focuses on his own anxiety rather than the person in need.
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        does empathy always lead to empathy in preschool children?
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            feelings of concern or sorrow for another's plight.
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        Sympathy
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            Concluded that social development proceeds in a three-step sequence. 1. nonsocial activity, 2. parallel play 3. associative play 4. cooperative play.
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        Mildred parten's peer sociability
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            unoccupied, onlooker behavior and solitary play
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        nonsocial activity
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            a child plays near other children with similar materials but does not try to influence their behavior
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        Parallel play
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            children engage in separate activities but exchange toys and comment on one anther's behavior
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        associative play
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            a more advanced type of interaction, children orient toward a common goal, such as acting out a make believe them
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        cooperative play
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            Yes and no. We agree that these play forms emerge in the order suggested, but that later-appearing ones do not replace earlier ones in a developmental sequence.
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        Do we agree with Parten's peer sociability thoery?
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            Functional play, constructive play, make-believe play
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        developmental sequence of cognitive play categories
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            simple repetitive motor movements with or without objects, especially common in first two years. IE running around a room.
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        functional play
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            Creating or constructing something, common between 3-6 years. IE making a house out of toy blocks.
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        Constructive play
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            Acting out everyday and imaginary roles, especially common between 2-6 years. IE playing house
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        Make-believe play
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            aimless wandering, hovering near peers, and functional play involving repetitive motor action.
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        what types of nonsocial activity is cause for concern?
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            Pleasurable play and sharing of toys. As yet friendship does not have a long-term, enduring quality.
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        what do 4-7 year olds regard friendship as?
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            providing play oppertunities, parents show children how to initiate their own peer contacts
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        direct parental influences on early peer interactions
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            -secure attachment to parents are linked to better peer interaction  -parent child play is effective context for promoting peer-interaction.
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        indirect parental influences on early peer interactions
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            child's morality is externally controlled by adults. Gradually, it become regulated by inner standards
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        children's morality
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            is a conscience formation promoting type of discipline in which an adult helps the child notie feelings by pointing our the effects of the child's misbehavior on others.
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        induction (the psychoanalytic perspective)
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            -makes the child to anxious to think clearly and figure out the right thing to do.   - it makes the child feel little guilt about violating standards.
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        discipline that relies too heavily on threats of punishment or with drawl of love does what to a child? (the psychoanalytic perspective)
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            inducing empathy-based guilt by explaining that the child is harming someone and has disappointed the parent is a means of influencing children without using coercion.
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        What is the role of guilt/ empathy-based guilt (the psychoanalytic perspective)
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            expressions of personal responsibility and regret IE sorry I hurt him
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        empathy-based guilt (the psychoanalytic perspective)
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            through reinforcement and modeling
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        according to social learning theory, how is morality acquired?(social learning theory)
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            1. warmth and responsiveness of the model/adult  2. competence and power.   3. consistency between assertions and behavior.
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        What characteristics of models affect children's willingness to imitate(social learning theory)
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            Consistency, A warm parent-child relationship, explanations.
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        How can you increase the effectiveness of Harsh punishment? (social learning theory)
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            in contrast to the psychoanalytic and behaviorist approaches to morality (which focuses on how children acquire ready-made standards from adults) The cognitive-developmental perspective views children as active thinkers that they develop on thier own about justice and fairness.
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        How do psychoanalytic, behaviorist and cognitive-developmental perspectives on morality differ?
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            preschoolers distinguish from moral imperatives: protect people's rights and welfare; from two other types of rules and expectations: Social conventions and matters of personal choice
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        Moral imperatives
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            customs determined solely by consensus, such as table manners
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        social conventions (The cognitive-developmental perspective)
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            choice of friends, hairstyle, ect which do not violate rights and are up to the individual
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        matters of personal choice (The cognitive-developmental perspective)
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            the first type of aggression to emerge (by the second year).   -children act to fulfill a need or desire-obtain an object, privilege, space or social reward, and unemotionally attack a person to achieve their goal.
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        proactive aggression
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            an angry, defensive response to provocation or a blocked goal and is meant to hurt another person
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        reactive aggression
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            -physical aggression:(direct or indirect) harms others through physical injury   -verbal aggression:(direct) harms others through threats of physical aggression, name calling or hostile teasing.   - relational aggression: (both direct and indirect) damages another's peer relationships through social exclusion, malicious gossip or friendship manipulation.
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        three forms of proactive and reactive aggression?
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            the more tv watched in chilhood and early adolescence the greater amount of annual aggressive acts committed by the young person.
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        relationship of tv viewing in childhood and early adolescence.
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            refers to any association of objects, activities, roles, or traits with one sex or the other in ways that conform to cultural stereotypes.
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        gender typing
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            Mothers, when reading to their 2-6 year old's often labeled gender, even when they did not have to. at age 2 mothers did it more then children, by age 6 children exceeded their mothers gender labeling while reading.
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        gelman, taloer and nguyen 2004
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            -Born as a boy  -penis cut off during circumcision  -brought up as a girl  -terrible confused childhood where he was treated as a girl, but acted like a guy.   -at 14 parents told him about the accident, and he opted to return to being male and have a penis constructed.   -life started going well, got married.   -then his twin brother killed himself, he lost all his money in a shady business deal, wife left him and he eventually killed himself as well.   -Sh-it
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        David reimer
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            Teachers, parents, peers, broader social environment
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        who extend gender-role learning?
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            an image of one self as relatively masculine or feminine in characteristics.
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        gender identity
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            ambitious, competitive, and self sufficient
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        Masculine characteristics
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            affectionate, cheerful and soft spoken
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        feminine characteristics
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            scoring high on both masculine and feminine personality characteristics.
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        androgyny
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            a full understanding of the biologically based permanence of their gender, including the realization that sex remains the same even if clothing, hairstyle and play activities change. Happens around 6 years of age
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        gender constancy
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            an information processing approach to gender typing that combines social learning and cognitive developmental features. It explains how environmental pressures and children's cognition's work together to shape gender-role development.  - IE at an early age children pick up gender-typed preferences and behaviors from others. At the same time they organize their experiences into gender schemas, or girl/boy categories.  -they then pick their gender and incorporate it into thier self-perceptions
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        gender schema theory
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            combinations of parenting behaviors that occur over a wide range of situations, creating an enduring child-rearing climate
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        child rearing styles
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            is low in acceptance and involvement, high in coercive control and low in autonomy granting.
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        authoritarian child rearing style
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            most successful approach, involves high acceptance and involvement, adaptive control techniques, and appropriate autonomy granting.
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        authoritative child rearing style
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            is warm and accepting but uninvolved. overindulging or inattentive and engage little control. Grant TO MUCH autonomy
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        permissive child rearing style
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            combines low acceptance and involvement with little control and general indifference to issues of autonomy
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        uninvolved child rearing style
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            Physical abuse  Sexual abuse   neglect: failing to meet basic needs  emotional abuse:social isolation, repeated unreasonable demands, ridicule, humiliation, terrorizing
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        maltreatment takes what forms?
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            psychological disturbance, substance abuse. history of abuse as a child, desire to satisfy unmet emotional needs throught the child, young age (under 30), low education
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        parental characteristics of child maltreatment
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            premature or sick as a baby, difficult temperament, developmental problems
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        child characteristics of maltreatment
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            low income, homelessness, marital instability, social isolation, physical abuse of mother by husband or BF, large families with closely spaced children, high stress life.
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        family characteristics of maltreatment
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            violence and social isolation, few: parks, child-care centers, religious institutions
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        community factors of maltreatment
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            approval of physical force and violence to solve problems.
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        culture factors of maltreatment
