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
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
Related Flashcard Decks
| 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 |