Prosocial, Antisocial and Moral Development in Childhood and Adolescence Flashcards
Refers to behavior that is intended to promote the welfare of specific others or social groups, even when this behavior has no instrumental benefits for the actor.
Prosocial Behavior
Connotes actions that harm specific individuals or social groups, either when such harm is intended or when the harm is foreseen but judged irrelevant.
Antisocial Behavior
Antisocial and Prosocial Behavior are poles of a single dimension, and can be understood to have roots in a single process called…?
Emotion Regulation
TRUE or FALSE: Boys who were consistently high in antisocial behavior throughout their development had very difficult temperatments at 3-years old.
TRUE
These types of disorders originate in the brain and affect a person’s behavior or cognitive functioning.
Neuropsychological Deficits Disorders
Provide the (3) roots for extreme antisocial behavior.
- Neurological Deficits
- Extreme Temperamental Irritability
- Biologically Influenced Emotional Processes
People with Antisocial Personality Disorder are also referred to as…?
Sociopaths
Mental health condition in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others. These people lack remorse or do not regret their behavior.
Antisocial Personality Behavior
What does ODD stand for?
Oppositional
Defiant
Disorder
Frequent and ongoing pattern of anger, irritability, arguing and defiance toward parents and other authority figures.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
ODD includes being spiteful and seeking revenge, a behavior referred to as…?
Vindictiveness
Symptoms of ODD generally begin during ____ years. It may also develop later, but almost always before early teen years.
Preschool
ODD, in some cases, may lead to the development of another disorder known as…?
Conduct Disorder
Mental health condition that affects children and teens that’s characterized by a consistent pattern of aggressive behaviors and actions that harm the well-being of others.
Conduct Disorder
More common in males at birth, and is typically diagnosed in children and adolescence - commonly between ages 10 to 19 years old.
Conduct Disorder
Continuity and Transformation rely on ___ and ___.
Cognition & Emotion
Some behaviors show a very strong consistency throughout development.
Continuity
Transformation is also known as _____ change.
Qualitative
Situations in which people must choose and justify a course of action or reasoning with respect to a moral issue.
Moral Dilemmas
TRUE or FALSE: Since children & adolescents make sharp distinctions between moral and non-moral domains - moral stages are almost always most likely to be used in reasoning about all social issues.
FALSE, they are unlikely to be used in all reasoning.
The belief one holds as to why people carry out a particular action or behavior.
Attribution
What are the 3 Levels under Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development?
- Preconventional
- Conventional
- Postconventional
KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
Stages 1 and 2 are most characteristic of what age group?
Children
KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
Stage 3 emerges most among this age group.
Adolescents
KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
Stage 4 increases in salience across this age group.
Adolescents
KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
Stage 5 appears in this age group, although even then is fairly rare.
Adults
KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
TRUE or FALSE: Regression among the stages over time is rare.
TRUE
KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
TRUE or FALSE: People randomly move up the stages. (Ex. One person may immediately go from Stage 1 to Stage 3)
FALSE, People move up one single stage at a time.
DEVELOPMENT WITHIN RELATIONSHIPS:
Within this approach, it’s argued that parents share genes with their children and that many psychological characteristics are influenced by genes rather than systemic behavior towards children.
Behavioral-Genetic Approach
DEVELOPMENT WITHIN RELATIONSHIPS:
___ and ___, along with one’s parenting style and the child/adolescent’s choice of friends - have an effect towards prosocial and antisocial behavior.
Culture & Social Media
