SDS150R Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Relational Aggression, Moral Realism, Moral Relativism
24 Apr 2016
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Sds 150r - lecture 10 - social and personality development in middle adulthood. Freud: b/w 6 and puberty = repress libidinal desires to concentrate on developing friendships and social skills, challenge is to form emotional bonds with peers. Erikson: challenge = crises of industry vs. inferiority (fourth stage, children develop sense of own competence through mastery of culturally defined learning tasks) develop competence as they fail/succeed at academic tasks self-assessments and actual achievements = strongly correlated. Trait: stable pattern of responding to situations five dimensions: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism (emotional instability), openness/intellect identifiable and stable in middle childhood, contributes to feelings of competence scores on these = predict academic achievement. Person"s understanding of his/her enduring psychological characteristics. The nature of self-esteem: first happens when they reach school age = develop global self-evaluation (self-esteem) self-esteem: global evaluation of one"s own worth stable in short term, but less so overtime (more stable in girls)
