CH. 8: KEY TERMS Flashcards
Authoritarian parenting
a restrictive, punitive style in which parents exhort the child to follow their directions and to respect their work and effort; this parent places firm limits and controls on the child and allows little verbal exchange; associated with children’s social incompetence.
Authoritative parenting
a parenting style in which parents encourage their children to be independent but still place limits and controls on their actions. Extensive verbal give-and-take is allowed, and parents are warm and nurturing toward the child; associated with children’s social competence.
Autonomous morality
in Piaget’s theory, older children (about 10 years of age and older) become aware that rules and laws are created by people and that in judging an action one should consider the actor’s intentions as well as the consequences.
Conscience
an internal regulation of standards of right and wrong that involves integrating moral thought, feeling, and behavior
Constructive play
play that combines sensorimotor and repetitive activity with symbolic representation of ideas; occurs when children engage in self-regulated creation or construction of a product or a solution
Coparenting
support parents provide to each other in jointly raising their children
Games
activities engaged in for pleasure that include rules and often involve competition with one or more individuals
Gender
the characteristics of people as males and females
Gender identity
the sense of being male or female, which most children acquire by the time they are 3 years old.
Gender role
a set of expectations that prescribes how females or males should think, act, and feel
Gender schema theory
the theory that gender typing emerges as children develop gender schemas of their culture’s gender-appropriate and gender-inappropriate behavior
Gender typing
acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role
Heteronomous morality
the first stage of moral development in Piaget’s theory, occurring from approx. 4 to 7 years of age. Justice and rules are conceived of as unchangeable properties of the world, removed from the control of people
Immanent justice
the concept that if a rule is broken, punishment will be meted out immediately
Indulgent parenting
a style of parenting in which parents are highly involved with their children but place few demands or controls on them; associated with children’s social incompetence, esp, a lack of self-control
Moral development
development that involves thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding rules and conventions about what people should do in their interactions with other people
Neglectful parenting
a style of parenting in which parent is uninvolved in the child’s life; associated with children’s social incompetence, esp, a lack of self-control
Practice play
play that involves repetition of behavior when new skills are being learned or when physical or mental mastery and coordination of skills are required for games or sports
Pretense/symbolic play
play in which the child transforms the physical environment into a symbol
Psychoanalytic theory of gender
a theory deriving from Freud’s view that the preschool child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent, by approx. 5 to 6 years of age renounces this attraction because of anxious feelings, and subsequently identifies with the same-sex parent, unconsciously adopting the same-sex parent’s characteristics
Self-understanding
the child’s cognitive representation of self, the substance and content of the child’s self-conceptions
Sensorimotor play
behavior engaged in by infants that lets them derive pleasure from exercising their existing sensorimotor schemas
Social cognitive theory of gender
a theory emphasizing that children’s gender development occurs through the observation and imitation of gender behavior and through the rewards and punishments children experience for gender-appropriate and gender-inappropriate behavior
Social play
play that involves social interactions with peers
Social role theory
a theory that gender differences result from the contrasting roles of men and women
