General
Friendship
Behaviors
Theory
Intelligence, Culture, Parenting
100
Classification
What is the ability to group objects according to some shared characteristic and to order groups hierarchically?
100
Positively evaluated by their age mates.
What are children who are aware of a variety of perspectives that are present in a social situation likely to be?
100
BGeing a target of peer rejection.
What increases a child's sense of loneliness?
100
Concrete Operational Thinking
Through what do children begin to appreciate the logic, order, and predictability of the physical world?
100
-Ability to solve difficult problems -Ability to detect logical relationships among objects. -Ability to understand one's own internal feelings.
What is intelligence?
200
Intellectual Development
What does the work of Erik Erikson & Jean Piaget point to in terms of work that is central in psychological development in middle childhood?
200
The child comes to expect negative behaviors from others.
What happens to a rejected child in the process of social skill development?
200
They are likely to be bullied or victimized.
What is a characteristic of withdrawn children who have strong feelings of loneliness?
200
This term highlights the focus on real objects rather than hypothetical situations and relationships.
Why does Piaget uses the term CONCRETE to describe the qaulity of thinking that is characteristic of middle childhood?
200
Japanese & Chinese parents expect their schools to do a better job and put pressure on education improve the quality of education.
What is an example of a sociocultural factor that contributes to the superior skill development of Japanese and Chinese children?
300
Children who are securely attached are more popular and more comfortable in social situations.
What is how attachment formation in infancy relates to friendship formation?
300
Conformity
What is what middle age children have greater pressure to do this because they become aware of social norms?
300
Agressive Withdrawn Children
What group is most likely to develop serious mental health problems in adolescence or adulthood?
300
Identity
What is when a child understands that when you change the shape of a piece of clay you sill have the same clay?
300
The child thinks of himself or herself as someone who can read.
What new aspect of self concept influences a child's enthusiasm for reading?
400
Power Assertion
What parental discipline technique is most likely to interfere with a child's friendship formation?
400
They provide a context for working on relationships in which both members have equal power, status, and access to resources.
Why are "best friend" relationships important in middle childhood?
400
When attacked they do not retaliate.
What is a common characteristic of a child who is a victim of bullying?
400
The higher the level of grouping the more progress a child will make in learning to read.
What is the relationship bewteen placement in reading level group and a child's progress in reading?
400
Some cultures consider reading to be of little use and to difficult for a child.
What is how a cultural context influences a child's ability to read?
500
Increased Perspective Taking Skills
What is one cognitive benefit of active involvement in a peer group?
500
Close friendships are more stable in schools that keep children in the same classroom groups from grade to grade.
How do school environments affect close friendships?
500
Anxiety
What emotion is characteristic of withdrawn children?
500
Reading
What is one of the most critical intellectual skills developed and elaborated on during middle childhood?
500
Children have such low ability they can't distinguish correct and incorrect responses.
What captures the illusion of competence?
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