Deck 13: Seciton 2: Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development

Question 1

According to Erikson, the developmental crisis children face in middle childhood is that of _____.

Answer 1

industry versus inferiority

Question 2

A critical characteristic of resilience is a child's _____ adaptation to stress.

Answer 2

positive

Question 3

_____ occurs when children try to take care of everyone, including their parents.

Answer 3

Parentification

Question 4

The ability to compare oneself with others is called _____.

Question 5

Unrealistically high self-esteem reduces _____, which is one's ability to deliberately modify impulses and emotions.

Question 6

According to the _____ model, the crucial question about any risk factor is whether it increases the family members' stress.

Question 7

Children who overcome severe problems in childhood may be referred to as _____.

Question 8

Three of the five essential functions of the _____ for school-age children include providing basic necessities, helping the child to develop self-respect, and nurturing peer relationships.

Question 9

Family _____ refers to the legal and genetic connections among people living in the same household.

Question 10

On average, _____ families function best; children from these types of families tend to achieve better in school and experience fewer psychological problems.

Question 11

Family _____ refers to how a family cares for its members.

Question 12

Two factors that can interfere with good family function around the world are high conflict and _____.

Question 13

Steve, a divorced father of two, and Caroline, a widowed mother of three, got married and created a _____ family of five.

Question 14

Freud said that school-age children are in the stage of _____.

Question 15

Children in the same family do not share identical classes in school and friends; therefore, these are _____ aspects of their environments.

Question 16

Sierra and her brother George were reared together. Their home environment would be considered a _____ environment.

Question 17

Peers become _____ important than ever before in middle childhood.

Question 18

One indication of psychosocial _____ between the ages of 6 and 11 is the ability to do more self-care (keeping oneself and one's room clean, cooking one's own food, etc.).

Question 19

The country with the highest rates of marriage, divorce, and remarriage is _____.

Question 20

Part of the definition of resilience is that the adversity must be _____.

Question 21

Natasha, a 9-year-old girl, spends many summer afternoons playing with her 6-year-old cousin, teaching her the rules of games, childhood rituals, and values. Carol is passing down _____ culture to her cousin.

Question 22

Tyler threatened to punch Liam every time he didn't hand over his new PlayStation game. Liam was a victim of _____ bullying.

Question 23

Children who are kind, trustworthy, and cooperative are _____.

Question 24

In Kohlberg's preconventional moral reasoning, avoiding _____ is the primary motivation.

Question 25

The type of aggression that uses electronic means to harm another is _____ and becomes more common after primary school.

Question 26

Social shunning by a ringleader or spreading a rumor about someone else to destroy peer acceptance are examples of _____ aggression.

Question 27

_____ involves returning what was taken or fixing what was broken.

Question 28

Child culture promotes _____ from adults.

Question 29

_____ involves punishing the transgressor (such as grounding him or her or sending the child to bed without dinner, etc.).

Question 30

Children who are disliked by peers due to their timid, anxious demeanor are _____-rejected.

Question 31

Children want to be _____; they learn faster as well as feel happier when they have friends.

Question 32

Children who are disliked by peers due to their antagonistic, confrontational behavior are _____-rejected.

Question 33

The theorist who most clearly described a basic framework for moral development is _____.

Question 34

Middle childhood is a prime time for _____ development.

Question 35

Children who are aggressive-rejected often become _____.