Chapter 10: Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Development Flashcards
(22 cards)
Social Cognitive Theory
focuses on the importance of rewards and modelling in middle childhood
Reciprocal Determinism
the interplay between the individual’s personality, environment, and behaviour
Social Cognition
perception of the social world
Children’s self-esteem _________ throughout middle childhood
declines
Low of self-esteem at age ______
12/13
Children with good self-image tend to have ___________ parents
authoritative
Children with low self-esteem tend to have ___________ parents
authoritarian or rejecting-neglecting
Co-reguulation
control is gradually tranferred from parent to child
Children of same sex parents:
-do not tend to be LGBTQ+
-are smarter
-have healthier attachment
-are more resilient
-have better mental health
Children of divorce are more likely to:
-experience conduct disorders
-drug abuse
-poor school grades
-low self-esteem
Skip-generation families
grandparents who parent their grandchildren
Withdrawn-rejected children
children who are disliked by their peers because they are perceived to be different in some way
Aggressive-rejected children
engage in disruptive and uncooperative externalizing behaviours and may struggle with emotional regulation
________ classrooms have seen good success in reducing bullying
Jigsaw
Most common social-emotional disorders in middle childhood:
-mood disorders
-anxiety disorders
-conduct disorders
-ADHD
Signs of depressed children:
-unhappy
-worried
-guilty
-angry
-fearful
-helpless
-hopeless
-lonely
-rejected
Depression is related to the neurotransmitter _________
serotonin
Internal attribution
tendency to blame onself
External attribution
tendency to blame others
School phobia
expression of separation anxiety disorder where children refuse to go to school
Conduct disorders
break rules or violate others by lying, stealing, fire setting, truancy, animal cruelty, fighting
