Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Moral Development, 6 Years, Motor Action F.C.
19 Sep 2016
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Chapter 8: emotional and social development in early. Initiative: new sense of purposefulness, eagerness to try new tasks, join activities, play permits trying out new skills, strides in conscience development. Guilt: overly strict superego, or conscience, causing too much guilt, related to parental: Emerging language skills enable children to discuss inner mental states. Set of attributes, abilities, attitudes, and values that an individual believes defines who he or she is. Consists largely of: observable characteristics (appearance, possessions, behaviour), typical emotions and attitudes ( i like/don"t like ). Does not yet reference personality traits ( i"m shy ). Influences: emotional experiences, future behaviour, long-term psychological adjustment. Increase in self-conscious emotions (shame, guilt etc. ) and empathy. Preschoolers correctly judge: causes of emotions ( he"s sad because he misses his mother ), consequences of emotions (angry child will hit someone, happy child will share etc. , behavioural signs of emotions.
