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Ch. 8 - Middle Childhood; the Social World Flashcards

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what expands the social world?

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drive for independence

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erikson’s 4th crisis

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industry vs inferiority

  • char by tension between productivity and incompetence
  • kids attempt to master culturally values skills and develop a sense of themselves as either industrious/inferior, competent/incompetent
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parental rxns

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shift from care provision to engagement in dialogue, discussion, and shared activities.

  • various levels of release from parental supervision and provision of more autonomy
  • less time with parents, more time alone or with peers
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signs of psychological maturation

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  • responsibility perform chores
  • manage allowance and activities
  • complete homework
  • attempt to conform to peers
  • express preferences for after-school hours
  • accept some responsibility for pets or younger siblings
  • strive for independence from parents
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self-concept

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development of more specific and logical ideas about personal intelligence, personal abilities, gender, and ethnic background

  • measurement of self to others in relation to own abilities, social status, and other attributes
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as self-concept develops…

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formulation of a more reality-grounded view of self; increase in self criticism and self consciousness.

  • children who affirm pride in gender/ethnicity likely to develop healthy self-esteem
  • some face social prejudice related to minority or religious group membership.
  • developing a sense of pride is more effective for self-confidence than directly preparing children for prejudice
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culture and self-esteem

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  • cultures and families differ in which attitudes and accomplishments they value
  • emerging self-perception benefits academic and social competence
  • praise for process (not static qualities) encourages growth
  • notice and value of material possessions increase
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resilience

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capacity to adapt well to significant adversity and to overcome serious stress

  • dynamic; not a stable trait
  • positive adaption to stress
  • adversity must be significant
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cumulative stress

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  • stress accumulates over time
  • daily hassles can be more detrimental than isolated major stress
  • social context is imperative
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factors contributing to resilience

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  • child’s interpretation of events
  • support of family and community
  • personal strengths
  • avoidance of parentification
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shared and nonshared environments

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most personality traits and intellectual characteristics traced to genes and nonshared environment

  • influence of shared environment decreases with age; fx of nonshared increases
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family structure

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legal and genetic relationships among relatives living in the same home

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family function

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the way a family works to meet needs of its members (more important than structure, but harder to measure)

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during middle childhood, family can help children by…

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  • providing basic material necessities
  • encouraging learning
  • helping them develop self-respect
  • nurturing friendships
  • fostering harmony and stability
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stability and children

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stability is difficult in military families and children displaced by storms, fire, war, etc

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two-parent families

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nuclear family
stepparent family
adoptive family
grandparents alone
same-sex parents
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single-parent families

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single mother/father never married
single mother/father divorced/separated/widowed
grandparent alone

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more than two adult families

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extended family

polygamous family

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cohort changes in family structures

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more single-parent households
more divorces and remarriages
less children per family

proportions differ, but problems within non-nuclear families are similar worldwide.

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single-parents in US

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US has more single-parents than other developed nations, but almost 2/3 of all US school-age children live with two parents

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what percent of US children are in single-parent homes or 1 or more years?

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two-parent families

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work best on average; children learn better in school and have less psychological problems.

education, earning potential, and emotional maturity increase the rate of marriage, and parenthood and decrease rate of divorce.

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major predictor of child well-being

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not parent’s sexual orientation but their income and stability, contact increases affection and care

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child maltreatment and shared parenting

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shared parenting leads to decreased child maltreatment risk

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single fathers
- generally, fathers who don't live with their children are less involve each year - single fathers face the same problems as single mothers
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stepfathers
- remarried adults tend to spend less time on stepkids, reject them, change residences, disrupt harmony and stability - stepkids may experience constellation shits, differential dis strat, anger, sadness, destructive behaviours
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extended family
family consisting of parents, children, and other relatives living in one household. 10% of US school-age kids
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opposing perspectives: aren't extended families always great?
- depends on intergenerational attitudes and income - multiple generation habitation often accumulate by stress - potential for family conflict evident worldwide
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two factors increasing likelihood of dysfunction in every structure, ethnic group, and nation
1) low-income or poverty | 2) high conflict
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poverty: family-stress model
- any risk factor damages family only if high stress in family - adult stress rxn to poverty crucial in determining fx on kids
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wealth
- generally, high income correlates to higher family function - score gap between high and low income kids larger in US - rxn to wealth may cause differences; parental rxn is key
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conflict
family conflict harms children, especially when adults fight about child rearing - more common in stepfamilies, divorced families, extended families - genes have some fx, but conflict is the main influence
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children's culture
each group of children has games, sayings, clothing styles, and superstitions that are not common among adults, just as every culture has distinct values, behaviours, and beliefs. - customs, rules, rituals - appearance - independence from adults
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friendships
school-age children value personal friendships more than peer acceptance. intense and intimate friendships improve with advances in social cognition and effortful control. by the end of middle childhood, close friends are almost always between children of the same sex, age, ethnicity, SES
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popular and unpopular children
particular qualities make a child liked or disliked depending on culture, cohort, and sometimes the local region/school
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popular children in US
- friendly and cooperative | - aggressive
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unpopular children in the US
- neglected, not rejected children (don't enjoy school, but psychologically unharmed) - aggressive-rejected children (disliked b/c of antagonistic, confrontational behaviour; may become bully-victims) - withdrawn-rejected children (disliked b/c of timid, withdrawn, or anxious behaviour)
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bullying
repeated, systematic efforts to inflict harm through on a weaker person.
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types of bullying
physical verbal relational cyberbullying
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victims of bullying
- endure repeated shameful experiences with no defense - tend to be cautious, sensitive, quiet, and friendless - providing psychological defense against lower self-respect is crucial - section for bullying based on emotional vulnerability and social isolation, not appearances - in pervasive bullying, almost any trait can develop into an excuse to exclude and harass a vulnerable child
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bullies
popular, proud, and socially dominant. - more skilled at avoiding adult awareness, picking victims, and using nonphysical methods to avoid adult punishment - boys typically attack smaller, weaker boys - girls use words and relational aggression to demean shyer girls - gay boys become targets, esp at the end of middle childhood
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causes of bullying in early childhood
chaotic home life ineffectual discipline hostile siblings insecure attachment
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causes of bullying in middle childhood
attempt to gain status and power
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consequences of bullying
serious psychological disorders by age 18 impaired social understanding lower school achievement, relational diff higher adult mental illness rates
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successful efforts to eliminate bullying
- personally finding ways to halt ongoing bullying by ignoring, retaliating, defusing, or avoiding - involving whole school not just bullies (convivencia) - engaging bystanders - encouraging multicultural sensitivity
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childrens moral skills
- making moral judgments | - differentiating universal principles from conventional norms
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moral rules of child culture
children align themselves with peers when adult morality clashes with child culture influences: - peer culture - personal experience - empathy school-age children can think and act morally, but don't always do so due to hidden curriculum or adult values
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3 moral imperatives of child culture
1) defend your friends 2) don't tell adults about kids' misbehaviour 3) conform to peer standards of dress, talk, and behaviour
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empathy
understanding of basic humanity of other people
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Kohlberg's Levels of Moral Thought
stages stem from three levels of moral reasoning with 2 stages at each level - preconventional moral reasoning - conventional moral reasoning - postconventional moral reasoning
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pros and cons of Kohlberg
pros: child's use of intellectual ability to justify moral actions cons: culture and gender differences ignored; exclusive male sample; diff between child and adult morality not addressed; rational principles values more than individual needs
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teaching morality
once children understand moral equity, they may be more ethical than adults; morality can be scaffolded with mentors using moral dilemmas to advance moral understanding, empathy, and moral regulation

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