Psychology Ch. 6 Flashcards
(54 cards)
The child’s cognitive representation of self, the substance and content of the child’s self conceptions
Self understanding
Early self understanding involves..
Self recognition
In early childhood, children distinguish themselves from others by..
Physical and material attributes
After children establish self awareness then they are capable of expressing..
Emotions and self consciousness
These parents monitor their child’s emotions, view their child’s negative emotions as a teaching opportunity, label their emotions, and teach them how to deal with them
Emotion-coaching parents
These parents view their role as denying, ignoring, or changing negative emotions
Emotion-dismissing parents
How you respond to, understand, react to others emotions, as well as how you use your own emotions makes up your..
Emotional intelligence
The marshmallow video showed how children are able to..
Regulate their emotions and practice delayed gratifications
Development that involves the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding rules and conventions about what people should in their interactions with other people
Moral development
Responding to another person’s feelings with an emotion that echoes those feelings
Empathy
Piaget concluded that children go through what two distinct stages in how they think about morality
Heteronomous morality
Autonomous morality
The first stage of moral development in Piaget’s theory, occurring from approximately 4 to 7 years of age. Justice and rules are conceived of as unchangeable properties of the world, removed from the control of people
Heteronomous morality
The second stage of moral development in Piaget’s theory, displayed by older children (10+). The child becomes aware that rules and laws are created by people and in judging an action, one should consider the actor’s intentions as well as the consequences
Autonomous morality
Heteronomous thinkers believe in ______ which is the concept that if a rule is broken, punishment will be given immediately
Immanent justice
The sense of being male or female, which most children acquire by the time they are 2 or 3 years old
Gender identity
When children realize that they are going to stay their gender forever, happens at about 4 years old
Gender stability
When children show that they understand putting a dress on a boy doesn’t make him a girl, they realize altercations don’t change the gender, happens at about 5 or 6 years old
Gender consistency
Sets of expectations that prescribe how females or males should think, act, and feel
Gender roles
The three social theories of gender
Social role theory
Psychoanalytic theory
Social cognitive theory
Theory that states that gender differences result from the contrasting roles of women and men
Social role theory
The view that the preschool child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite sex parent and by 5 or 6 renounce this attraction due to anxiety and then identifies with the same sex parent
Psychoanalytic theory of gender
A theory that emphasizes that children’s gender development occurs through the observations and imitations of gender behavior and through the rewards and punishments children experience for gender appropriate and gender inappropriate behavior
Social cognitive theory of gender
Mothers socialization strategies relate to her _____ while fathers socialization strategy relates to his _______
Mother- daughter
Father- son
Gender typing emerges as children gradually develop gender schemas and what is gender appropriate and gender appropriate in their culture
Gender schema theory
