PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Moral Reasoning, Eusociality, Social Rejection

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

By second grade you can start to identify areas you excel in, and that if feels good to excel and do well at what you like to do. By this time you begin to schedule time for homeworks and things in your head, begin to make simple lists, think about daily life in terms of the goals i needed/wanted to achieve. Sheldon white: the age 5-7 shift= children experience a host of cognitive and social changes in middle childhood that ultimately result in a newfound sense of maturity and rationality. A rough marker for a fundamental transformation in the human life course, a psychosocial transition that has implications on personality development. Individual differences in whether the shift begins before the age of 5 and continues after age of 7. 5-7 is just a proxy for a transformation of psychological function which occurs during middle childhood.