CHAPTER 12 CHILD DEVELOPMENT

LATENCY PERIOD

Freud's term:
- for middle childhood
- the period in which
- sexual urges lie relatively dormant

SENSE OF INDUSTRY

Erikson's theory:
- basic belief
- in one's own competence

PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF

concept of self
- made up of psychological characteristics
- such as mental abilities
- and customary ways of feeling

METATHEORY OF SELF

Children's understanding
- of nature of selves in general

SOCIAL SELF

an awareness that
- self is intimately tied to other people

SOCIAL COMPARISON

tendency to use others
- as source of information
- in evaluating self

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

capacity to plan and organize behavior

RELATIONAL AGGRESSION

Attempts to hurt another person
- by damaging a relationship

5 MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS

IN PEER RELATIONS IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD

1) children begin to expect more from friends/ including / loyalty and understanding

2) Children start to form networks of friends (or) peer groups

3) children learn to coordinate their allegiance to individual friends with their functioning in a group

4) Adhering to peer group norms becomes increasingly important

5) Clear boundaries for interaction with members of opposite sex develop

PEER GROUP NORMS

- Informal rules governing conduct of children
- within a peer group

BORDER WORK

rituals of teasing
- and ostracism with which elementary school children
- maintain the boundary between gender segregated peer groups

SOCIOMETRICS

research technique
- used to measure peer status

AGENCY

tendency to take initiative
- rise to challenges
- try to influence events

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