PSYC 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Comparison Theory, Competitive Learning, Kibbutz
10 Dec 2013
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The part of self-esteem that involves children"s perceptions of their academic abilities: age and gender differences infants have little understanding of success and failure so don"t behave in ways that give any evidence of self-evaluation. Before 2 years, children begin to show that they anticipate how adults will react to their achievements, such as when they look up for approval after making a stack of blocks. 3 years- infants more wanting to participate in activities at which they win than lose. Kindergarten: academic self concept is highest , then steadily declines through grade 4 trend noticed in children"s spontaneous classroom comments to other students, during interview, to questionnaires. Why: older children may realize that bragging is not socially appropriate, so they avoid giving glowing descriptions of their abilities: dweck"s motivational model of achievement. How a child performs at school depends partly on his or her academic abilities and partly on the amount of effort and motivation the child puts forth.
