chapter 13

Question 1

Erikson’s name for the psychosocial stage during middle childhood. What does it entail?

Answer 1

o Industry versus inferiority
Try to master skills
§ Tension between productivity and incompetence
§ Self-pride depends on other’s view

Question 2

· ?What are the impacts of becoming more realistic about one’s own abilities?

Answer 2

Overestimates of ability’s decreases

Question 3

What does resilience entail? How does one’s resilience potentially change over time?

Answer 3

Resilience: Involves capacity to adapt well to significant adversity and to overcome serious stress

Question 4

How do children in this age range feel about stability?

Answer 4

They like stability and safety. Not change

Question 5

Know what family structure and family function are. What are some family structures? What are the factors that interfere with family function?

Answer 5

o Family structure: the legal and genetic relationships among relatives living in the same house
§ Adoptive and same-sex parent families
§ Stepfamilies
§ Grandparent family
§ Single-parent family
o Family function: The way a family works to meet the needs of its members
§ Factors that interfere, Lowe income or poverty, and high conflict

Question 6

How common is the nuclear family?

Answer 6

46%

Question 7

How do genetics and conflict affect the family?

Answer 7

Same temperament

Parents fighting is harmful to children

Question 8

Which country leads the world in divorce and remarriage?

Answer 8

o America

Question 9

Know the categories of popular, neglected and rejected children.

Answer 9

o Popular: Kind, trustworthy, cooperative, athletic, dominant, arrogant, aggressive
o Neglected:
o Rejected:

Question 10

What is child culture?

Answer 10

o Child culture: Particular habits, styles and values that reflect the set of rules and rituals that characterize children as distinct from adult society
§ Fashion, appearance, peer culture, attitudes, independence from adults

Question 11

· ? Know Kohlberg’s 3 stages of moral reasoning and the emphasis of the reasoning of each stage (what does the individual focus on if they are making a moral decision in each of the 3 stages?).

Answer 11

o Preconventional moral reasoning
§ Emphasizes rewards and punishments (Egocentric, more interested in their personal pleasure and avoiding punishment)
o Conventional moral reasoning
§ Emphasizes social rules (try to follow what parents teachers and friends do)
o Postconventional moral reasoning
§ Emphasizes moral principles
Beyond what Is observed
(Question what is in order to decide what should be)