Human Growth and Development
Lecture 9 Socioemotional Development - Early Childhood
2/16/06
- Emotional and Personality Development
- The Self
- Erikson - initiative vs. guilt
- self-understanding
- Moral Development
- heteronomous morality
- autonomous morality
- Gender
- Sex vs. Gender
- Sex =
- Gender =
- Gender Identity
- Gender Constancy
- Gender role
- Social-cognitive theory of gender
- Do parents treat boys and girls differently?
- The Cross-Dressing Baby Study
- gender schema
- Sex differences in social behavior tend to be context-specific
- Parenting
- Teaching prosocial behavior
- I.e. sharing, following directions, helping others, showing concern for others
- How do parents teach their kids how to behave?
- (Grusec, 1991)
- Parenting Styles
- Authoritarian
- Authoritative
- Neglectful
- Indulgent
- Conflict between parents
- Divorce
- Importance of isolating children from parental conflict
- Parental Employment
- middle-class families
- lower-class families
- Siblings / birth order
- Parents have higher expectations for 1st born
- Effects on personality?
- Educational attainment
- Peers, Play, & TV
- Peers
- preschool, playground
- social comparison
- Play
- sensorimotor
- practice
- pretense/symbolic
- social
- constructive
- games
- TV
- Good or bad?
- Causal link with violence
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