Question 1

__________ is the main task of Erikson's middle childhood stage.

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Question 2

__________ is a child's understanding of their enduring personality characteristics and emotions.

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Question 3

__________ is the term Bandura employs to describe a child's concept of their own  competencies.

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Question 4

__________ is a child's global evaluation of their personal value.

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Question 5

__________ is Piaget's stage in which children believe that rules are inflexible and punishment inevitably follows rule-breaking.

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Question 6

According to Piaget, children reach the __________ stage when they are able to consider the intent of the action in their reasoning.

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Question 7

__________ is choosing to play exclusively with children of one's own sex.

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Question 8

Lola told the other girls in the fifth grade not to play with Neela because Lola did not like her. This is an example of __________ aggression.

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Question 9

Nine-year old Matt kicked over Carrie's sandcastle. When Matt was not looking, Carrie deflated his float. This is an example of __________ aggression.

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Question 10

__________ is the social status of children who are frequently nominated as a best friend and who have good social skills.

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Question 11

Jess is not nominated by anyone as a best friend. She tries to interact with the other children but she has limited social skills. So now she mainly plays by herself. __________ is Jess' social status.

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Question 12

__________ is a social-cognitive theorist who completed research in both self-efficacy and the modeling of aggressive TV programs.

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Question 13

__________ is a decline in responsiveness to violence on television and in video games and results in a diminished ability to emphasize with others.

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Question 14

Eight-year-old Grace is home by herself from the time she is dropped off at the corner by the bus until her dad comes home after work around 6 pm. Grace would be included as one of the 7.5 million __________ children.

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Question 15

__________ is the interaction of personal, environmental, and behavioral factors that according to Bandura (1989) constitutes one's personality.

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Question 16

__________ is the 8-to-12-year-old child's increased ability to regulate one's own behavior and results in decreased parental supervision.

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Question 17

What is self-efficacy? Why is it important? What factors are important in the development of self-efficacy?

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Question 18

What is the effect on development during the middle childhood period of watching television, playing video games, and using the computer?

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Question 19

How do the descriptions of the personal self and characterizations of other children change during middle childhood?

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Question 20

Present Piaget's two stages of moral reasoning that occur during the middle childhood period.How did Piaget study moral reasoning?

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Quiz 12: Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood