SDS 150R - TEST 2 Flashcards
factors that influence theory of mind
- Language and verbal reasoning
- Cognitive skills and abilities
- Make believe play
- Social interaction
Theory of mind
- Set of ideas about mental activities
- Explain other people’s beliefs, desires, and behavior
- Metacognition (thinking about thought)
Family relationships
- Most important factor of early childhood development
- Preschoolers are more active and struggle with independence
- Parenting young children involves new functions and tasks
Parenting styles (Maccoby and Martin)
- Authoritative
- Authoritarian
- permissive
- Uninvolved
Uninvolved
lower on demands and control, lower on warmth and acceptance, unavailable emotionally, behavioral problems, struggle with relationships, neglect, omission
Permissive
- high warmth and acceptance
- low on demand and control
- more indulgent parenting style
- child does their own thing
- parents don’t have many demands
- have issues socially
- don’t know how to handle conflict
Authoritarian
- high on demand and control
- lower on warmth and acceptance
- high on rules
- rules are more important than warmth and communication
- lower self esteem and less well in school
- struggle with social relationships
Authoritative
- the ideal parenting style
- higher demand and control
- higher expectations
- high on warmth and acceptance
- higher on communication,
- majority of parents
- best outcome, higher self esteem,more confident, better academics
Effects of ethnicity and SES on parenting
- Parenting depends on cultural context
- No cultural background is directly related to negative outcomes
- good parents occurs across all SES
- lower SES experience more risk factors
Types of play (Parten)
- Solitary play
- Parallel play
- Associative play
- Cooperative play
Associative play
brief, short lived, spontaneous interactions with other kids, sharing toys
Cooperative Play
2 or more children are working together to accomplish some type of goal, real genuine type of play, taking turns, playing games, common goal between parties playing
Parallel
by 1 year we see 2 or more children playing with toys along side but not together, no interaction, may be watching the others kids
solitary play
non-social, no concern
Benefits of friends during childhood
- Physical development: practicing fine motor development
- Cognitive development: theory of mind, how we understand someone’s perspective
- Social development: being able to have friends, solving problems, regulating emotions
concept of gender segregation (friend groups)
- Avoiding the other gender
- Begins with shared activity preferences
- Nature of friendships
- Cross cultural patterns
Girl Groups
- More competitive between strangers than friends
- More compliance and more agreement
- Pair’s or smaller exclusive groups
- Indoors or near home
Boy groups
- More competitive between friends than strangers
- Dominance hierarchy
- Larger gorups and more accepting of newcomers
- Outdoors and larger area