PSY 2114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Social Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Executive Functions

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Gustavo Gottret

Document Summary

Elementary school children often included references to social groups in their self- descriptions. E. g. : as girl scouts, as catholics, etc. Chapter 10: socio-emotional development in middle and late childhood. In middle and late childhood, children increasingly define themselves through psychological traits and characteristics in contrast to the more concrete descriptions of younger children. Elementary school children are more likely to define themselves in terms of social characteristics and social comparisons, such as smart, popular, dumb, etc. Social aspects of the self also increase at this point in development. Children younger than 7 made no reference to the information about other children"s performances, however, many children older than 7 included socially comparative information in their self-descriptions. Overall, in middle and late childhood, self-description increasingly involves psychological and social characteristics, including social comparison. During middle and late childhood, children show an increase in perspective taking, the ability to assume other people"s perspectives and understand their thoughts and feelings.