SOCI 100 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 Independent Questions.doc
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Chapter 8: social and personality development in early childhood: theories of social and personality development, psychoanalytic perspectives (optional reading not on the exams, social-cognitive perspectives, define the viewpoint held by social-cognitive theories. Social-cognitive theories assume that social and emotional changes in the child are the result of, or at least are facilitated by, the enormous growth in cognitive abilities that happen during the preschool years. The theoretical perspective asserts that social and personality development in early childhood is related to improvements in the cognitive domain: person perception. Preschoolers" observational and classification skills are less consistent than those of older children the inconsistency is because they tend to base them on their most recent interactions with those individuals. Preschoolers categorize others on the basis of observable characteristics such as race, age, and gender (c) define the cross-race effect and age when it is established. Social conventions are rules that have nothing to do with our fundamental sense of right and wrong.
