Chapter 6 Flashcards
(15 cards)
The capacity to manage ones emotional state.
Emotion Regulation
A personality style that involves acting on ones immediate impulses and behaving disruptive lot and aggressively.
Externalizing Tendencies
A personality style that involves intense fear, social inhibition, and often depression.
Internalizing Tendencies
The ability to observe our abilities and actions from an outside frame of reference and to reflect on our inner state.
Self-Awareness
Evaluating oneself as either “good” or “bad” as a result of comparing the self of other people.
Self-Esteem
Sharing, helping, and caring actions.
Prosocial Behavior
Prosocial behaviors that we carry out for selfless, non-egocentric reasons.
Altruism
Feeling the exact emotion that another person is experiencing.
Empathy
A state necessary for acting prosocially, involving feelings upset for a person who needs help.
Sympathy
A feeling of being personally humiliated.
Shame
Feeling upset about having caused harm to a person or about having violated ones internal standard of behavior.
Guilt
Any hostile or destructive act.
Aggression
The tendency of highly aggressive children to see motives and actions as threatening when they actually benign.
Hostile Attributional Bias
An explanation for gender stereotyped behavior that emphasizes the role of cognitions; specifically, the idea that once children know their own gender label (girl or boy) they selectively watch and model their own sex.
Gender Schema Theory
A situation in which one or more children (or adults) harass or target a specific child for systematic abuse.
Bullying
