Chapter 10 Middle Childhood Social Development Flashcards
Industry v. Inferiority (Erikson):
Industry v. Inferiority = development of competence or self esteem
Achievement = the child will have HIGH self esteem and competence known as industry,
No Achievement = the child will have LOW self esteem and competence which is inferiority.
Latency (Freud):
When the child starts to develop sexual energy that is REPRESSED, latent meaning hidden, or laid dormant. (Age 5/6-puberty)
Self conscious emotional development:
When a child feels, empathy, guilt, pride, feeling of being proud internally about something
Development of emotional understanding of?
Self and others;
The child will start to finally understand their feelings and others. (Empathy)
Cognitive development and social experience:
Understanding others, sympathizing with emotions of others within sad or upset situations
Understanding mixed emotions:
seeing how emotions articulate w/ multiple feelings , seeing where emotions come from.
Sometimes one emotion can come from multiple things, and they can start to see and understand this.
Increase in empathy:
They child will start to have an increase in morale and social behavior, meaning that they will know the difference between play time and “friend time”
Two types of coping strategies:
Problem Centered Coping + Emotion Centered Coping
Problem Centered Coping:
- situation is seen as changeable
- difficulty is identified
- situation is made on what to do
Problem Centered Coping is more common in?
Men
Emotion Centered Coping:
- used if problem centered coping does not work
- internal, private, and aimed at controlling distress when little can be done about the outcome.
Emotion Centered Coping is more common in?
Women
Can Problem and Emotion Centered Coping be completed at the same time?
Yes!!!! They both can be completed at the same time between men AND women. One portion of coping does not dictate male or female coping, it just is generalized based upon who does what more.
Peer groups are formed? How so?
Finding individuals just like you.
Same use of vocabulary, style, dress, and even relational aggression.
When looking at relational aggression, we should think about the Mean Girls. Mean Girls all harass and provide the SAME kind of relational aggression, thus attracting OTHER mean girls.
Friendships during Middle Childhood:
- Little bits of social support and comfort due to no abstract thought.
- Children during this time have similar interests.
- The friendships changes from Early Childhood; become homosocial. (Same friend for a while develop bonds)
- Loyalty becomes much stronger and friendships last longer.
