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Test 2 - Chapter 10
Social and Emotional Development, ages 2 through 5
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Undergraduate 1
04/07/2013

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Which two of Erickson's stages do children aged 2 to 5 years pass through?
Definition
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt  and Industry vs. Guild
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What does Erickson mean by "autonomy"? Give an example of a two-year-old showing autonomy.
Definition
New period of budding selfhood.  They want to decide for themselves and provide the child with suitable guidance and reasonable choices.
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What does Erickson mean by "initiative"? What characteristics of preschoolers did Erickson see that show children's initiative at this age?
Definition

New sense of purposefulness. 

  • Eager to try new things
  • Discovering what they can do
  • Ask questions to gain new knowledge
  • initiate interactiosn with peers, join in groups
  • Conscience develops
  • play allows children to try new things.
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What is attachment?
Definition
Close relationship/ bond that give a secure feeling.
Term
What do 2-year-olds do that shows their attachment to a parent or teacher?
Definition
They do not want to leave them.
Term
How do 3-to-5-year-olds' attachments look different than those of younger children?
Definition
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What is positive reinforcement? Give an example of a teacher or parent positively reinforcing a preschool child's behavior.
Definition
is a technique used to increase desired behavior.
Term
In addition to learning through positive reinforcement of their own behavior, in what other ways did Bandura think that children learn? Give an example from lab where you say Bandura's theory in action.
Definition
  • Imitation
  • Modeling
  • Learn through watching others' experiences
  • Children have an active role in their own learning
Term
What is self-concept?
Definition
How we see ourselves.  Set of attributes, abilities, attitudes, values that a person believes defines who they are.
Term
How would a 2-year-old describe themselves?
Definition
By Age and size
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How would a 3-to-5-year-old describe themselves?
Definition
By name, physical appearance, possessions, everyday behavior, emotions and attitudes.
Term
Where does self-concept come from?
Definition
  • A warm, sensitive parent-child relationship fosters positive self-concept.
  • Coonversations with adults, about things the child does and what they are good at, help children understand themselves
Term
What is self-esteem?
Definition
How we value ourselves and what we can do.  Judgments about our own worth.  Feelings associated with those judgments
Term
Why might preschoolers rate their abilities high, even if they are not good at something?
Definition
Term
What are preschoolers learning in terms of understanding emotions and regulating their own emotions?
Definition
  • Label and talk about feelings they have
  • Respond to others' emotional signals
  • Interpret and predict others' emotions
Term
What is a good way to help preschoolers overcome their fears?
Definition
have them investigate the fears for themselves
Term
What are the "self-conscious" emotions? Why do they not develop until age 2 or later?
Definition
Pride, Shame, Guilt.  They grow from self-awareness
Term
What is empathy? What is sympathy? How are they different? How are they related?
Definition

Feeling with another person, basis for pro-social behavior and kindness

 

Feelings of concern or sorrow for another's situation, follows from empathy

 

Both are developing in preschoolers

Term
What are some different types of social play found in preschoolers' interactions with peers?
Definition
  • Preschoolers gin skill at interacting with peers - improves rapidly over preschool age.
  • Start to see friendships develop during preschool years.
  • Children also get better at solving social problems with peers.
Term
What is parallel play? What is associative play? What is cooperative play? Give an example of each in preschoolers.
Definition

Play near each other with similar materials.

 

Separate activities, but exchange toys/materials and comment on each others' activity

 

Play with a common goal, e.g. acting out a make-believe scenario together, building a tower together.

Term
How do preschoolers move into cooperative play from nonsocial, solitary play?
Definition

Developmental sequence:

  • Functional play: Simple repetitive movement with toys
  • Constructive play: Creating or constructing something
  • Make-Believe play: Acting out everyday and imaginary roles.
Term
What are ways that young children can develop socially through play with peers?
Definition
  • Taking other's perspectives
  • Understand others' feelings and regulate their own
  • Negotiation and compromise
  • Responde to others' feelings and ideas
  • Explore and gain control of fearful situations
Term
How do preschoolers define friendships?
Definition
Someone who likes you and someone you play with a lot
Term
How do preschoolers' interactions with friends different from their interactions with other children who are not friends?
Definition
  • Give twice as much positive reinforcement to each other,
  • play together in more complex ways,
  • are more cooperative with each other,
  • and express more emotions to each other
  • Argue more with each other, but are more likely to negotiate and work out the problem together, and continue interacting
Term
What skills are involved in social problem-solving?
Definition
  • Empathy
  • Noticing and interpreting social cues
  • Understanding own social goals
  • Thinking of possible strategies and solutions
  • Knowledge of social rules and socail exceptions
Term
How can adults help children lean to solve social problems with peers?
Definition
  1. Approach quickly and calmly, stop any hurtful behavior
  2. Acknowledge feelings by making simple statements
  3. Gather information
  4. Restate the problem
  5. Ask for solutions and choose one together
  6. Give follow-up support
Term
What is proactive aggression? Give an example.
Definition
To fulfill a need or desire
Term
What is reactive aggression? Give an example.
Definition
Angry aggressive response, meant to hurt another
Term
What is relational aggression? Give an example.
Definition
A form of agression that damages anoterh's peer relationships through social exclusion, malicious gossip, or friendship manipulation.
Term
Name the four styles of child rearing outlined by Diana Baumrind.
Definition
  1. Authortitative
  2. Authoritarian
  3. Permissive
  4. Uninvolved
Term
What are some things that adults can do to support social and emotional development in young children?
Definition
  • Observe and respond to children’s cues
  • Be responsive and form attachments
  • Be respectful of each child’s individual characteristics
  • Model prosocial behaviors
  • Label emotions and support children’s reflection on their feelings
  • Use authoritative and inductive discipline
  • Minimize comparisons or competitions between children
  • Model or scaffold children’s social conflict resolution
  • Tune in to a child’s needs rather than their difficult behavior.  Think about WHY they are doing this & how you can help them.
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