wk 3 terms Flashcards
Blended families
Parents, children, and stepchildren merged into families through remarriages
Extended families
Parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins living in the same household or in close proximity so they can have regular contact with each other
Parenting styles
The ways of interacting with and disciplining children
Attachment
Forming an emotional bond with another person, initially a parent or family member
Peer cultures
Groups of children or adolescents with their own rules and norms, particularly about such things as dress, appearance, music, language, social values, and behaviours.
Self-concept
Individuals’ knowledge and beliefs about themselves – their ideas, feelings, attitudes, and expectations
Self-esteem
The value each of us places on our own characteristics, abilities, and behaviours
Theory of mind
An understanding that other people are people too, with their own minds, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, desires, and perceptions
Perspective-taking ability
Understanding that others have different feelings and experiences
Moral reasoning
The thinking process involved in judgements about questions of right and wrong
Moral dilemmas
Situations in which no choice is clearly and indisputably right
Social conventions
Agreed-upon rules and ways of doing things in a particular situation
Distributive justice
Beliefs about how to divide materials or privileges fairly among members of a group; follows a sequence of development from equality to merit in benevolence
Moral realism
Stage of development wherein children see rules as absolute
Morality of cooperation
Stage of development wherein children realize that people make rules and people can change them
