Middle Childhood Socioemotional Development Flashcards
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Emotional Regulation
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- capacity to manage one’s emotional state
-maturing frontal lobe contributes to self-regulation
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problematic temperamental tendencies
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- externalizing
- internalizing
3
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Piagets Concrete Operational Stage
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- understand theory of mind
- become less egocentric
(understanding ppl have different pov than your own) - self-aware (reflective and compare)
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Susan Hatter’s Personality Research
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- Changes of self-awareness
- Self-Esteem develops
- Personality Anchored in Feelings, abilities and inner traits
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Erikson’s Industry v Inferiority
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- children have the ability to work towards a goal (may feel inferior when they don’t measure up)
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Self Esteem
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- based on the values a child puts on a particular dimension
- People Skills, Politeness, Intellectual Abilities, Appearance, Physical Abilities
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Self Esteem Distortions
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- Internalized (intensely fearful, can read failure in everything and low SE)
- Externalized (act out, impulsive, often aggressive, may ignore real problems, fail bc don’t see need for improvement)
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Learned Helplessness
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- Feel incapable of affecting the outcome of event
- common in those with internalizing problems
9
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Interventions for views of oneself
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- Promote realistic Self-Esteem
- encourage accurate perceptions
10
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Prosocial Behavior
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- Sharing, helping and caring actions
- altruism (prosocial behavior performed for selfness)
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Interventions: socializing children to be prosocial
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- attend to prosocial behavior
- reinforce altruistic behavior
- Discipline using induction
- Model Prosocial behavior
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Aggression
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- Any hostile or destructive act
- Peaks at age 2 1/2
- Declines with onset of emotional regulation
13
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Types of Agression
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- Instrumental (instigated to achieve a goal)
- Reactive (acting out in response to frustration)
- Relational (carried out indirectly, by damaging relationships)
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Factors Contributing to Aggression
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-difficult temperament may evoke power-assertion disciplinary techniques
- rejection from teachers and peers
- hostile attributional bias
- Boys are more likely to have externalizing problems
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Relationship and Play
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- rough-and-tumble play
- fantasy play (pretend)
