PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Helicopter Parent, Peer Group, Conflicting Emotions
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Lec 10 psychosocial development in middle childhood (chapter 13) Around age 7 or 8: children reach the third stage of self-concept development. Judgments about the self become more realistic, conscious and balanced, because children develop: Representational systems: broad, inclusive self-concepts that integrate various aspects of the self. Ex. children compare real self to ideal self and how to get there. Childre(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of their (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) for produ(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:449)ork. Industry vs. inferiority virtue of competence view of the self that as you are able to do things well. If inadequate, start to retreat to protective embrace of family for comfort, but does(cid:374)(cid:859)t help the(cid:373) get that past, (cid:272)auses the(cid:373) to (cid:374)egle(cid:272)t other so(cid:272)ial relationships. Pare(cid:374)ts stro(cid:374)gl(cid:455) i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e a (cid:272)hild(cid:859)s (cid:271)eliefs a(cid:271)out (cid:272)o(cid:373)pete(cid:374)(cid:272)e: ex. Study where middle class us town pare(cid:374)t(cid:859)s (cid:271)eliefs about child competence ex. Pare(cid:374)ts rate their kids, the(cid:374) fou(cid:374)d the (cid:272)hild(cid:859)s (cid:271)eliefs matched the parents strongly.