PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: George Herbert Mead, Self Esteem (Song), Learned Helplessness

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Kathleen Bloom

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Psychology 211 chapter 13: emotional and social development in middle childhood. Industry versus inferiority: resolved positively when experiences lead children to develop sense of competence at useful skills and tasks. In industrialized nations, the beginning of formal schooling marks the transition to middle childhood. The danger at this stage is inferiority, reflected in the pessimism of children who have little confidence in their ability to do well. Older school age children are far less likely than younger children to describe themselves in extreme, all or none ways. Social comparisons: judgements of their appearance, abilities, and behavior in relation to those of others. Cognitive, social, and cultural influences on self concept. Cognitive development affects the changing structure of the self. The changing content of self-concept is a product of both cognitive capacities and feedback from others. George herbert mead proposed that a well-organized psychological self emerges when children adopt a view of the self that rese(cid:373)(cid:271)les others(cid:859) attitudes to(cid:449)ard the (cid:272)hild.