CHD 2220 Final exam
How does parenting change in middle age children Correct Answer: Time spent with parents greatly
decline and independence grows for the child. Activites and responsibilities shift from adult to child.
What kind of style of parenting becomes easier in the transition into middle age children? Why? Correct
Answer: Authoritative. This style causes greater logical thinking and increased respect for the parents
knowledge
What is co-regulation? Correct Answer: Parents do not let entirely of control but engage superversion
as an oversight while letting the children take charge of moment by moment decision making. Grows
out of a warm cooperative relationship based on a give and take and mutual respect. Supports and
protects children while still preparing them for adolescence.
What is the difference in younger children and middle aged children when describing themself/self-
understanding Correct Answer: Younger children use concrete description and middle age use
psychological terms.
Social comparison Correct Answer: Distinguishing themselves from others in comparative terms. What
can I do compared to others? Self-description made up from the comparisons.
Perspective talking/recursive thought Correct Answer: Ability to assume others people's perspective
and thoughts and feelings. Used when creating self-concept adopting the belief of others towards them.
What is Self-esteem? Correct Answer: Global evaluation of the self.
What is self-concept? What is it created from? Correct Answer: -domain specific evaluations of the self
(academic, athletics, appearance etc). Product of cognitive capacity and feedback (perspective talking
skills) from others
Issue with self-esteem? Correct Answer: Not always an accurate measurement. Children could have
inflated esteem because we clap over the smallest things.
How can we effectively increase self-esteem? Correct Answer: 1. Identify the cause of low self-esteem.
2. Provide emotional support and social approval.
3. Help Children achieve
4. Help Children cope
What is changed in Erikson theory involving enviroment? Correct Answer: World is now neighbohood
school and community instead of just the family.
What is occurring with Erikson theory during this Correct Answer: -Developing competence at usefull
skills and tasks.
-Begins formal school where children engage in work.
-Children feel inferior when they don't feel good about their abilities.
, Piaget's concrete operational stage Correct Answer: thoughts are more logical flexible and organized.
Children can seriate mentally (transitive interference)
Conservation** Correct Answer: Task provide clear evidence of the operations-mental actions that obey
logical rules. (horizontal declage)
Decentration Correct Answer: focusing on several aspects of the problem not just a central idea
Spatial Reasoning Correct Answer: Better understand spatial relationships (directions and maps). Uses
perspective taking.
Reversibility Correct Answer: think through a series of steps and mentally reverse the direction.
Seriation** Correct Answer: ability to order items along a quantitative dimension such as length and
weight.
When Helping a child parent act enforcing gender stereotypes Correct Answer: 1. Mastery-oriented
fashion with sons setting high standards
2. Less often encourage girls to make their own decisions.
3. Most often praise boys for accomplishment and girls for obedience
What is the difference between males and females? Correct Answer: -Girls have edge in fine motor skills
of handwriting/drawing & gross motor skills with balance and agility.
-Boys greater at skills with strength throwing and kicking.
Academically girls are more confident in ___ while boys are in ____ Correct Answer: language arts;
math science and athletics
Prejudice Correct Answer: declines in middle childhood. Doesnt for stereotpye base on the basis may
follow an authority figure.
The extent to which childrem hold racial and ethnic bias depends on Correct Answer: 1. A fixed view of
personality traits
2. Overly high self-esteem
3. A social world in which people are assorted into groups
How can we reduce prejudice? Correct Answer: Through intergroup contact, in which racially different
children have equal status, work towards a common goral and becomes personally acquainted.
Peer groups Correct Answer: collective of peers who generate unique values and standards for behavior
and a social structure of leaders and followers.
To acess peer acceptance researchers use self report generating these 5 catagories Correct Answer: 1.
Average (recives average # of positive and negative)
2. Popular (many positive votes, best friends, not disliked)
3. Rejected (actively disliked by peers)
4. Controversial (mixed opinion)
5. Neglected (chosen by no one no poritive or negtive no friends but not disliked)
How does parenting change in middle age children Correct Answer: Time spent with parents greatly
decline and independence grows for the child. Activites and responsibilities shift from adult to child.
What kind of style of parenting becomes easier in the transition into middle age children? Why? Correct
Answer: Authoritative. This style causes greater logical thinking and increased respect for the parents
knowledge
What is co-regulation? Correct Answer: Parents do not let entirely of control but engage superversion
as an oversight while letting the children take charge of moment by moment decision making. Grows
out of a warm cooperative relationship based on a give and take and mutual respect. Supports and
protects children while still preparing them for adolescence.
What is the difference in younger children and middle aged children when describing themself/self-
understanding Correct Answer: Younger children use concrete description and middle age use
psychological terms.
Social comparison Correct Answer: Distinguishing themselves from others in comparative terms. What
can I do compared to others? Self-description made up from the comparisons.
Perspective talking/recursive thought Correct Answer: Ability to assume others people's perspective
and thoughts and feelings. Used when creating self-concept adopting the belief of others towards them.
What is Self-esteem? Correct Answer: Global evaluation of the self.
What is self-concept? What is it created from? Correct Answer: -domain specific evaluations of the self
(academic, athletics, appearance etc). Product of cognitive capacity and feedback (perspective talking
skills) from others
Issue with self-esteem? Correct Answer: Not always an accurate measurement. Children could have
inflated esteem because we clap over the smallest things.
How can we effectively increase self-esteem? Correct Answer: 1. Identify the cause of low self-esteem.
2. Provide emotional support and social approval.
3. Help Children achieve
4. Help Children cope
What is changed in Erikson theory involving enviroment? Correct Answer: World is now neighbohood
school and community instead of just the family.
What is occurring with Erikson theory during this Correct Answer: -Developing competence at usefull
skills and tasks.
-Begins formal school where children engage in work.
-Children feel inferior when they don't feel good about their abilities.
, Piaget's concrete operational stage Correct Answer: thoughts are more logical flexible and organized.
Children can seriate mentally (transitive interference)
Conservation** Correct Answer: Task provide clear evidence of the operations-mental actions that obey
logical rules. (horizontal declage)
Decentration Correct Answer: focusing on several aspects of the problem not just a central idea
Spatial Reasoning Correct Answer: Better understand spatial relationships (directions and maps). Uses
perspective taking.
Reversibility Correct Answer: think through a series of steps and mentally reverse the direction.
Seriation** Correct Answer: ability to order items along a quantitative dimension such as length and
weight.
When Helping a child parent act enforcing gender stereotypes Correct Answer: 1. Mastery-oriented
fashion with sons setting high standards
2. Less often encourage girls to make their own decisions.
3. Most often praise boys for accomplishment and girls for obedience
What is the difference between males and females? Correct Answer: -Girls have edge in fine motor skills
of handwriting/drawing & gross motor skills with balance and agility.
-Boys greater at skills with strength throwing and kicking.
Academically girls are more confident in ___ while boys are in ____ Correct Answer: language arts;
math science and athletics
Prejudice Correct Answer: declines in middle childhood. Doesnt for stereotpye base on the basis may
follow an authority figure.
The extent to which childrem hold racial and ethnic bias depends on Correct Answer: 1. A fixed view of
personality traits
2. Overly high self-esteem
3. A social world in which people are assorted into groups
How can we reduce prejudice? Correct Answer: Through intergroup contact, in which racially different
children have equal status, work towards a common goral and becomes personally acquainted.
Peer groups Correct Answer: collective of peers who generate unique values and standards for behavior
and a social structure of leaders and followers.
To acess peer acceptance researchers use self report generating these 5 catagories Correct Answer: 1.
Average (recives average # of positive and negative)
2. Popular (many positive votes, best friends, not disliked)
3. Rejected (actively disliked by peers)
4. Controversial (mixed opinion)
5. Neglected (chosen by no one no poritive or negtive no friends but not disliked)
