PSC 140 Chapter 13: Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
● Industry versus inferiority: according to Erikson’s theory, the stage during which children
judge themselves to be industrious and successfully meeting the new challenges posed
by adults at home and school, or inferior and incapable of meeting such challenges
● Social comparison: the process of defining oneself in relation to one’s peers
● Self - esteem: one’s evaluation of one’s own worth
● Autonomous morality: the second and final stage of Piaget’s theory of moral
development in which right & wrong are defined according to internal motives &
intentions rather than objective consequences
● Prosocial moral reasoning: the thinking that is involved in deciding whether to share with,
help, or take care of other people when doing so may prove costly to oneself
● Objective view of responsibility: an understanding that responsibility depends on
objective consequences alone
● Subjective view of responsibility: an understanding that responsibility depends on both
intentions and consequences
● Social structures: complex organizations of relationships between individuals
● Dominant children: in reference to social hierarchies, those children who control
“resources” such as toys, play spaces, and decisions about group activities
● Social repair mechanisms: strategies that allow friends to remain friends even when
serious differences temporarily drive them apart
● Coregulation: a form of indirect social control in which parents and children cooperate to
reinforce the children’s understandings of right and wrong, what is safe and unsafe,
when they are not under direct adult control
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Document Summary
Industry versus inferiority: according to erikson"s theory, the stage during which children judge themselves to be industrious and successfully meeting the new challenges posed by adults at home and school, or inferior and incapable of meeting such challenges. Social comparison: the process of defining oneself in relation to one"s peers. Self - esteem: one"s evaluation of one"s own worth. Autonomous morality: the second and final stage of piaget"s theory of moral development in which right & wrong are defined according to internal motives & intentions rather than objective consequences. Prosocial moral reasoning: the thinking that is involved in deciding whether to share with, help, or take care of other people when doing so may prove costly to oneself. Objective view of responsibility: an understanding that responsibility depends on objective consequences alone. Subjective view of responsibility: an understanding that responsibility depends on both intentions and consequences. Social structures: complex organizations of relationships between individuals.
