Middle Childhood

Flashcards for Middle Childhood Lecture Review

Industry vs. Inferiority

Mastering social and cognitive skills, measuring success against their peers.

Motor Development

Changes in coordination, agility, smoothness during middle childhood.

Readiness

The point at which a child’s developmental maturity allows them to quickly learn a skill.

Cretinism

Chronic disease characterized by physical deformity and dwarfism caused by a lack of iodine in drinking water

Rickets

Permanent damage in the bones resulting in flat chest, deformed pelvis, and/or crooked back caused by vitamin D deficiency

Concrete Operational Stage

Mental actions that are reversible and limited to real objects.

Conservation Task

The recognition that properties of a substance do not change when its appearance is altered.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Ability to perceive others' emotions and regulate own emotions.

Metalinguistic awareness

Ability to go beyond the information presented.

Social Role-Taking

Can infer others' thoughts, feelings, intentions but still can’t assume another’s viewpoint.

Interpersonal awareness

How the child conceives his or her own inter-personal relationships, particularly friendship and peer group relationships.

Self-efficacy

A belief in your own capabilities to achieve goals

Looking glass theory

Research shows that children’s evaluations for themselves resemble the way other people perceive them

Externalizing Problems

Acting out problems.

Internalizing problems

Inner state problems.

ADHD

Most common neurobehavioral disorder of childhood characterized by excessive motor activity, impulsiveness, and inattention.

Peer groups

Groups of age-mates that are durable and involve interactions based on an established set of social relationships

Friendship

A close, mutual, and voluntary dyadic bilateral relationship

Popularity

Being liked or accepted by one’s peers

Induction

parental strategy because it helps children develop internal moral standards