Flashcards in Lecture 5: Social and Moral Development Deck (14)
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Self concept
-how you think about yourself
• develops during early childhood
• initially predominantly ‘concrete’, with basic descriptions of emotions/attitudes: eg ‘I can run really fast’ if asked what’s good about themselves, asked to describe themselves eg ‘I’m a cheerful person’ they focus on basic things they can do or simple descriptions or how they are
• refined in middle childhood with use of personality traits to describe self
• later adolescence, becomes more complex. Understand that me-self dependent on context
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Influences of self esteem
Age
• high in early childhood
• young children high self-esteem, over-estimate their abilities
• drops during first years of school
social comparison: reality of mixing with others
• more ‘realistic’ in middle childhood
• generally stable, and high, for majority from 8 years
Culture
• gender differences: about achieving, the individual, then self-esteem will be high, community more about the culture, collective, modestly highly valued, then self-esteem might look like have lower self-estem however to do to with how tests have been devloped
• japan cf America (generally nation about themselves, Japan-idea of modesty, sharing achievements value far more)
Child-rearing practices
• nurturing/loving environment better chance of having good self-esteem
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Influences of self esteem
Age
• high in early childhood
• young children high self-esteem, over-estimate their abilities
• drops during first years of school
social comparison: reality of mixing with others
• more ‘realistic’ in middle childhood
• generally stable, and high, for majority from 8 years
Culture
• gender differences: about achieving, the individual, then self-esteem will be high, community more about the culture, collective, modestly highly valued, then self-esteem might look like have lower self-estem however to do to with how tests have been devloped
• japan cf America (generally nation about themselves, Japan-idea of modesty, sharing achievements value far more)
Child-rearing practices
• nurturing/loving environment better chance of having good self-esteem
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Influences of identity development
-personality
-family
-peers, friends, school
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Gender Identity
Early childhood
• By age 2 can label self and others as male/female
• 3 prefer gender-stereotypical toys
• 4 develop rigid stereotypes eg occupation
Middle childhood
• knowledge of stereotypes increases
• can consider conflicting social information and therefore can display gender-stereotype flexibility
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Development of gender identity: Social Learning Theory
-behaviour comes first, then self-perception
-evidence that parents do treat children differently depending on gender
-engage in behaviour from looking at others, the more you engage in a behaviour that was likely to be reinforced if it conformed to stereotypes, that came first then that’s how you start to label yourself
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Development of gender identity: Cognitive-Developmental Theory
-self-perception comes first
-Kohlberg: Development of Gender Constancy linked to cognitive maturity
-cognitive understanding, ability to cognitively process the idea of gender and what it meant and then to label yourself
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Moral development
-3 components
1. Emotional: empathy for distress, guilt if cause of distress
2. Cognitive: developing social cognition enables decision-making re moral dilemmas
3. Behavioural: behaviour may not necessarily follow on from emotions/thoughts
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Theories of moral development: Psychoanalytic perspective
• Morality appears between 3&6 yrs
• Children jealous of same-sex parent, but fear loss of relationship so compensate by identifying with same sex parent-super-ego
• Current psychoanalytic research emphasises attachment (still focusing on emotion)
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Theories of moral development: Social Learning Theory
• Develops through modelling then reinforcement
• Internalisation of social norms important, but cannot explain all moral behaviour
-Eg where society and ethical principles conflict
-Child more active in constructing morality
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Theories of moral development: Piaget
Two stages
1. Heteronomous Morality (5-10 years)
-rules given by authority figures
-rules are immutable and must be obeyed
-focus on consequences of behaviour rather than the intentions eg experiment with kid carrying try vs taking cookie
2. Autonomous Morality (from 10 years)
-rules are socially constructed and flexible
-base judgements on intentions
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Evaluation of Piaget's theory of moral development
• Children can take intentions into account at a younger age if intentions are made more obvious
• Young children do question adult authority in certain contexts
• Many children show heteronomous and autonomous reasoning
• Kohlberg extended and refined Piagets theory from 10 yrs to adulthood
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Theories of moral development: Kohlberg
• Presented ‘moral dilemmas’ to 10 yrs to adults
• ‘Heinz’ dilemma
• looked at how participants justified their decisions-not about decision you come to, its about how you justified the decision that you came to
• categorised into 6 stages
• believed stages were universal and invariant
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