Vocabulary Terms Flashcards
Children & adolescents develop their emerging personality traits & understanding of who they are as individuals.
Personal Development
Students begin to understand their fellow human beings, develop social skills & interpersonal relationships
Social Development
Tendency to respond and deal with events in certain ways (from birth)
Temperament
Assessments of one’s own characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses
Social Development
Judgments & feelings about one’s own value and worth.
Self-Esteem
Putting pressure on themselves to adapt to behaviors they think others will find acceptable
Self-Socialization
The ability to consider how people around them are likely to think about, behavior, and react to various situations
Social Cognition
Involves paying attention to certain behaviors in a social situation, trying to interpret & make sense of those behaviors
Social Information Processing
Developmental changes in thinking, reasoning, language
Cognitive Development
Children construct their own beliefs, understandings from their experiences
Constructivist Theory
Mental discomfort that stimulates a child to try to make sense of what they’re observing
Disequilibrium
Process through which social activities evolve into internal mental activities.
Internalization
Term is often used to refer to this process of internalizing but also for adapting the ideas, strategies of one’s culture for one’s own use.
appropriation
