Prosocial, Antisocial and Moral Development in Childhood and Adolescence

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Prosocial Behavior

Question 2

Connotes actions that harm specific individuals or social groups, either when such harm is intended or when the harm is foreseen but judged irrelevant.

Answer 2

Antisocial Behavior

Question 3

Antisocial and Prosocial Behavior are poles of a single dimension, and can be understood to have roots in a single process called…?

Answer 3

Emotion Regulation

Question 4

TRUE or FALSE: Boys who were consistently high in antisocial behavior throughout their development had very difficult temperatments at 3-years old.

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

These types of disorders originate in the brain and affect a person’s behavior or cognitive functioning.

Answer 5

Neuropsychological Deficits Disorders

Question 6

Provide the (3) roots for extreme antisocial behavior.

Answer 6

• Neurological Deficits
• Extreme Temperamental Irritability
• Biologically Influenced Emotional Processes

Question 7

People with Antisocial Personality Disorder are also referred to as…?

Answer 7

Sociopaths

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Antisocial Personality Behavior

Question 9

What does ODD stand for?

Answer 9

Oppositional
Defiant
Disorder

Question 10

Frequent and ongoing pattern of anger, irritability, arguing and defiance toward parents and other authority figures.

Answer 10

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Question 11

ODD includes being spiteful and seeking revenge, a behavior referred to as…?

Answer 11

Vindictiveness

Question 12

Symptoms of ODD generally begin during ____ years. It may also develop later, but almost always before early teen years.

Answer 12

Preschool

Question 13

ODD, in some cases, may lead to the development of another disorder known as…?

Answer 13

Conduct Disorder

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Conduct Disorder

Question 15

More common in males at birth, and is typically diagnosed in children and adolescence - commonly between ages 10 to 19 years old.

Answer 15

Conduct Disorder

Question 16

Continuity and Transformation rely on ___ and ___.

Answer 16

Cognition & Emotion

Question 17

Some behaviors show a very strong consistency throughout development.

Answer 17

Continuity

Question 18

Transformation is also known as _____ change.

Answer 18

Qualitative

Question 19

Situations in which people must choose and justify a course of action or reasoning with respect to a moral issue.

Answer 19

Moral Dilemmas

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

FALSE, they are unlikely to be used in all reasoning.

Question 21

The belief one holds as to why people carry out a particular action or behavior.

Answer 21

Attribution

Question 22

What are the 3 Levels under Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development?

Answer 22

• Preconventional
• Conventional
• Postconventional

Question 23

KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
Stages 1 and 2 are most characteristic of what age group?

Answer 23

Children

Question 24

KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
Stage 3 emerges most among this age group.

Answer 24

Adolescents

Question 25

KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
Stage 4 increases in salience across this age group.

Answer 25

Adolescents

Question 26

KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
Stage 5 appears in this age group, although even then is fairly rare.

Answer 26

Adults

Question 27

KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
TRUE or FALSE: Regression among the stages over time is rare.

Answer 27

TRUE

Question 28

KOHLBERG’S THEORY:
TRUE or FALSE: People randomly move up the stages. (Ex. One person may immediately go from Stage 1 to Stage 3)

Answer 28

FALSE, People move up one single stage at a time.

Question 29

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.

Answer 29

Behavioral-Genetic Approach

Question 30

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.

Answer 30

Culture & Social Media