PSYC 4070 : Chapter 10 WITHOUT ABBREVIATIONS (got 93% on the test)
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Psychosocial development in middle childhood: conflict/crisis is industry vs. inferiority (age 6 12, erikson said middle childhood is very much about competence, focus on efforts to attain competence in mtg challenges present by parents/ peers/ school/ modern world, will direct energies on mastering challenges they encounter n school and in their social worlds, success in meeting these bring feelings on mastery and proficiency and a growing sense of competence, difficulties in this stage lead to feelings of failure and inadequacy. Self esteem: developing a positive or negative view of oneself: self concept refers to beliefs / cognitions about self, i am good at baseball and no good at tennis. , self esteem refers to individual"s overall positive and negative self evaluation, everybody thinks i"m a jerk. , becomes more differentiated in middle childhood, at age 7 reflects global view of themselves.