Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood

Question 0

Blended Family

Answer 0

A family created from a combination of stepchildren, step parents and stepsiblings

Question 1

Achievement Motivation

Answer 1

Effort and persistence in attaining goals that enhance competence or judgements of competence

Question 2

Industry vs Inferiority

Answer 2

Industry is the major task of middle childhood, the need for effort and achievement, in failing to achieve this the child risks falling into an opposite state of inferiority, where children lack a feeling of competence and belief in their own skills, and suffer from poor self esteem

Question 3

Juvenile Period

Answer 3

Proposed by Sullivan, this is the period between the ages of about five and ten years when children show increasing interest in developing intense friendships or ‘chum’ relationships with peers of the same gender

Question 4

Learning Orientation

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Achievement motivation that comes from within the learner and involves satisfaction from mastery of the task

Question 5

Peers

Answer 5

Individuals who are of approximately the same age and developmental level and share common attitudes and interests

Question 6

Performance Orientation

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Achievement motivation stimulated by other individuals who may see and evaluate the learner

Question 7

Reciprocal Friend

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When two individuals share the view that a mutual friendship exists

Question 8

Self Concept

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A dynamic, rather than static sense of self, a persons ever-changing and evolving ideas about themselves that continues as they get older and gain more world experience

Question 9

Self Constancy

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The belief ones identity remains permanently fixed. This is established sometime after the age of six, usually during the early school years

Question 10

Sense of Self

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A structured way in which individuals think about themselves that helps them to organise and understand who they are based on the views of others, their own experiences and cultural categories such as gender and race

Question 11

Social Competence

Answer 11

A complex, multidimensional concept consisting of social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills, as well as motivational and expectancy sets needed for successful social adaptation. Inadequacies in social competence play an important role in the origins and genesis of peer rejection