Socioemotional Dev Middle Childhood

Question 1

peer relations during middle childhood

Answer 1

• increased orientation toward peers

- start associating w/specific set of friends

Question 2

peer statuses (4)

Answer 2

1. popular
2. rejected
3. neglected
4. controversial

Question 3

popular

Answer 3

viewed favorably by peers, social skills persist into adulthood

Question 4

antisocial popular

Answer 4

engage in relational aggression to maintain status

Question 5

prosocial popular

Answer 5

socially skilled, good listeners, don’t use relational aggression

Question 6

rejected

Answer 6

actively disliked by peers, highest risk of problems in future (such as drug use, aggression)

Question 7

neglected

Answer 7

ignored by peers, but not associated with bad outcomes in adulthood

Question 8

controversial

Answer 8

viewed both positively and negatively

Question 9

immediate consequences of divorce (3)

Answer 9

1. drastic drop in income
2. increase in family conflict
3. change in parenting styles

Question 10

child’s response to divorce by age

Answer 10

• younger: blame selves, regressive behavior

- older: understand reasons, act out (sex, run away, delinquency, etc)

Question 11

child’s response to divorce by gender

Answer 11

• girls: internalize, cry/withdraw (act out if remarry)

- boys: act out, risky behavior (worse if don’t remarry)

Question 12

Kohlberg’s theory

Answer 12

• stages of moral development
• 3 stages with substages
• studied primarily using Heinz dilemma (steal medicine to save a life?)

Question 13

stages of moral dev (3)

Answer 13

1. preconventional
2. conventional
3. post-conventional

Question 14

preconventional stage

Answer 14

moral behavior controlled externally (via reward/punishment)

Question 15

conventional stage

Answer 15

moral behavior determined by social/societal rules, strong focus on others

Question 16

post-conventional stage

Answer 16

moral behavior controlled internally via conscience, may break rules for an overriding principle