HS1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Developmental Psychology, Nuclear Family, Egocentrism
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Psychosocial changes: knowing self, achieving, family relationships, peers, school (middle childhood is a period of transition and consolidation) Development of self: self -knowledge increases, moves beyond observable features and absolute descriptors, becomes more complex and better organised. Incorporates aspects of social description and comparison: how popular they are, how their skills compare with others. Individualist: sense of self develops as personal entity, asian cultures, collectivist, additional selves , famiilal self-related to family values, spiritual self-related to religious beliefs. Intrinsic motivation (learning orientation: comes from within, task-related, fostered by optimal challenge, choice and feedback, extrinsic motvation (performance orientation, focuses on satisfying others, fostered by external rewards, deadlines, adult control. Family changes and their effect on children"s psychosocial development. Parental monitoring: parental monitoring essential for optimal socio-emotional development, becomes less frequent and less direct as child gets older, depends on child"s temperament, proactive parenting, behaviour campaigns, effective monitoring involves creating trusting relationship.
