Developmental Psychology - Middle and Late Childhood Part 3
This deck covers key concepts and terms related to developmental psychology during middle and late childhood, focusing on behaviors, disorders, and social dynamics.
aggression, fighting, disobedience, hostility
• Externalizing behaviors
Key Terms
aggression, fighting, disobedience, hostility
• Externalizing behaviors
unfavorable attitudes towards outsiders
o Prejudice
asking children who they like to play with, they like the most, or who they think other kids like the most
o Positive Nomination
opposite of positive nomination
o Negative Nomination
measures that is composed of positive nominations, negative nominations or no nominations
o Sociometric Popularity
frequently nominated as bestie and rarely disliked by peers
o Popular Children
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
aggression, fighting, disobedience, hostility | • Externalizing behaviors |
unfavorable attitudes towards outsiders | o Prejudice |
asking children who they like to play with, they like the most, or who they think other kids like the most | o Positive Nomination |
opposite of positive nomination | o Negative Nomination |
measures that is composed of positive nominations, negative nominations or no nominations | o Sociometric Popularity |
frequently nominated as bestie and rarely disliked by peers | o Popular Children |
receive an average no of both positive and negative nominations | o Average children |
infrequently nominated as bestie but not really disliked | o Neglected Children |
disliked by peers | o Rejected Children |
frequently nominated both bestie and most disliked | o Controversial Children o Unpopular children can make friends but they tend to have fewer friends and they prefer younger ones |
aimed at achieving an objective • Proactive • View force and coercion as effective ways to get what they want | o Instrumental Aggression |
– intended to hurt another person • Reactive | o Hostile Aggression |
quickly conclude, in ambiguous situations that others were acting with ill intent and are likely to strike out in retaliation or self-defense | o Hostile Attributional Bias |
– aggression that is deliberately, persistently directed against a particular target | o Bullying |
– pattern of defiant, disobedience, and hostility towards adult authority figures lasting at least 6 months | o Oppositional Defiant Disorder |
persistent, repetitive pattern, beginning at an early age of aggressive, antisocial acts, such as truancy, setting fires, habitual lying, etc. | Conduct Disorder |
unrealistic fear of going to school | o School Phobia |
excessive anxiety for at least 4 weeks concerning separation from home or from people to whom the child is attached | o Separation Anxiety Disorder |
children worry about everything, tends to be self-conscious, self-doubting, and excessively concerned with meeting the expectations of others | o Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
extreme fear and/or avoidance of social situations such as speaking in class | o Social Phobia or Social Anxiety |
obsessed by repetitive, intrusive thoughts, image, or impulses, or may show compulsive behaviors | o Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
disorder of mood that goes beyond normal, temporary sadness | o Childhood Depression |
are those who weather circumstances that might blight others, who maintain their composure and competence under challenge or threat | o Resilient Children |
o Two most important protective factors | Good family relationship and cognitive functioning |
lowest level • Children interpret good and bad in terms of rewards and punishments • Or they are nice to others so that others will be nice for them | Pre-conventional Reasoning |