psychosocial development in middle childhood

Question 1

Kohlberg’s levels of moral reasoning

Answer 1

• pre-conventional
• conventional
• post conventional

Question 2

social comparison and competition

Answer 2

• activities in middle childhood focus on skills, so success and failure are public
• use social reality to evaluate themselves
• Positive and negative self-evaluations → increasingly differentiated self-concepts
• fosters development of realistic, culturally viable self value
• children capable around 8 years of age

Question 3

pre-conventional

Answer 3

moral reasoning governed by obedience to authority and personal rewards and punishments

Question 4

conventional

Answer 4

• moral reasoning governed by social norms, societal experiences
• communal social rule s

Question 5

post-conventional

Answer 5

-moral reasoning governed by personal and global moral principles

Question 6

self-concept development

Answer 6

• self esteem
• social comparison
• peer relationships