Psych: Chapter 8
social and personality development in early childhood
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- emotional regulation
- the ability to control emotional states and emotion-related behavior
- uninvolved parenting style
- a style of parenting that is low in nurturance, maturity, demands, control, and communication
- social skills
- a set of behaviors that usually lead to being accepted as a play partner or friend by peers
- aggression
- behavior intended to harm another person or an object
- cross-gender behavior
- behavior that is atypical for one's own sex but typical for the opposite sex
- permissive parenting style
- a style of parenting that is high in nurturance and low in maturity demands, control, and communication
- gender scheme theory
- an information-processing approach to gender concept development that asserts that people use a schema for each gender to process information about themselves and others
- gender stability
- the understanding that gender is a stable life-long characteristic
- extended family
- a social network of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and so on
- sex roles
- behavior expected for males and females in a given culture
- prosocial behavior
- behavior intended to help others
- authoritative parenting style
- a style of parenting that is high in nurturance, maturity demands, control, and communication
- authorization parenting style
- a style of parenting that is low in nurturance and communication, but high in control and maturity demands
- person perception
- the ability to classify others according to categories such as age, gender, and race
- gender identity
- the ability to correctly label oneself and others as male or female
- gender constancy theory
- Kohlberg's assertion that children must inderstand that gender is a permanent characteristic before they ca adopt appropriate sex roles
- Social-cognitive theory
- the theoretical perspective that asserts that social and personality development in early childhood is related to improvements in the cognitive domain
- hostile aggression
- aggression used to hurt another person or gain advantage
- gender constancy
- the inderstanding that gender is a component of the self that is not altered by external appearance
- sex-typed behavior
- different patterns of behavior exhibited by boys and girls
- emapthy
- the ability to identify with another person's emotional state
- instrumental aggression
- aggression used to gain or damage an object
- gender concept
- understanding of gender, gender-related behavior, and sex roles
- inductive discipline
- a discipline strategy in which parents explain to children why a punished behavior is wrong