Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Development Flashcards
___________, Freud believed that sexual feelings remain repressed, focus on developing intellectual social and other culturally valued skills
latency stage
Erickson labeled this stage _______, chrildren who are able to master the challenges of the middle years to develop a sense of industry or competence
Industry vs. inferuority
_______ _______ _____ focuses on the importance on rewards and modeling in middle childhood/
Social cognitive theory
Development of childrens’s udnerstanding of relationship between the self and others.
Social cogniton
Middle childhood. their thoughts are more _____
abstract
True or false: Children enter middle childhood, and self esteem declines throughout middle childhood.
true
An acquired belief that one is unable to control one’s environment
learned helplessness
More than one _____ American children each year experience the divorce of their parents. Most children live with their mothers
million
The children of divorce are more likely to
have conduct disorders, abuse drugs, and to have poor grades in school
True or false: the daughters of employed women are more achievement oriented and set higher career goals for themselves than the daughters of unemployed women
True
_________ children tend to be attractive, mature for their age, and succesful in sports or academics
Popular
Attractiveness is more important in ____ than boys
girls
In preschool years, friendships are based on
geographical closeness or proximity
Between ___ and ____, children recognize the importance of friends meeting each other’s needs and possessing desirable traits.
8 and 11
______ tend to develop closer friendships than boys
Girls
