FRHD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cognitive Development, Predicable

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1010
• Professor: Susan Chuang

Document Summary

Middle childhood is a time kids gain independence and autonomy. They increase in ability to regulate self and exercise self-control. More than people of any other age, children age 6-11 are naturally industrious, practicing whatever skills their culture values or are busy w/ their own childhood concerns. Far more vulnerable to criticism than are younger kids. Industry versus inferiority: the 4th of erikson"s 8 psychosocial crises, during which kids attempt to master many skills. Developing a sense of themselves as industrious or inferior, competent or incompetent. Overall kids judge themselves either industrious or inferior deciding whether they are competent or incompetent, productive or useless, winners or losers. Being productive is intrinsically joyous & it fosters self-control that"s crucial defense against emotional problems. Latency: freud"s term for middle childhood, during which kids emotional drives and psychosexual needs are quiet (latent). Freud though that sexual conflicts from earlier stages are only temporarily submerged, bursting fourth again at puberty.