FRHD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Cognition, Nuclear Family, Single Parent

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

Document Summary

Children can tell time and appropriate times for certain activities, try to conform to peers, striving for independence from parents. Industry and inferiority: the 4th of erikson"s 8 psychosocial crises, during which children master many skills, developing a sense of themselves as either industrious or inferior, competent or incompetent. Children are able to do more tasks and look for ways to master a new skill. Freud + latency: the term for middle childhood during which children"s emotional drives and psychosexual needs are quiet. Freud thought that sexual conflicts from earlier stages are only temporarily submerged and come about again during puberty. Self concept: how they perceive themselves (intelligence, personality etx) gradually becomes more logical and incorporates influences. Comparing with others is the idea that they are more concerned with how peers view them than parents. Social comparison is the tendency to assess one"s abilities, achievements, social status and other attributes by measuring them against those of other people.