SocialEmotional Early Childhood

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Social/Emotional Early Childhood
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Self-Development

• Individualistic cultures
• definition of self through individual
  self-reflection. Parents tell me something but I
  still have to think about it
• Collectivistic Cultures
• definition of self through social roles and
  obligations. Sense of me by how I serve others

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Self

• Actual Self- who you really are
• vs
• Possible Self-who you would like to be
• ideal- who you would like to be
• feared-who you imagine being but fear becoming

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The Developing Self

• Self-Concept vs Self-Esteem
• Self-Concept
• how we see ourselves
• how we think or feel about ourselves
• begins to develop this image in toddlerhood
• not fully developed until later in life
• Begins to develop autobiographical memory and an
  advanced theory of the mind

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Developing Self

• Self-Esteem
• Global Evaluation
• Do I like self?
• Evaluation of ones worth

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The Developing Self

• Emotions
• continue to develop
• 5 levels of emotions
• o level- no two feelings can coexist
• Level 1- develop separate categories for positive
  and negative emotions. Separeated into pos. and
  neg.
• Level 2- two feelings of the same kind toward
  different targets, however cannot acknowledge
  contradictory feelings.

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Developing Self

• Level 3- Can integrate positive and negative
  emotions, however only towards different targets
• Level 4- conflicting feelings towards the same
  target

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Erikson

• Initiative vs Guilt
• Virtue- purpose
• a sense of purpose vs what holds them back

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Gender

• Gender identity- awareness of ones maleness or
  femaleness
• differences become more pronounced by age three
  but they remain more alike than different
• Gender Roles- behaviors, interests, skills and
  attitudes deemed appropriate for a male or female

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Gender

• Gender Typing
• Gender Stereotypes

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Types of Play

• Functional Play
• lowest cognitive level of play- repeating
  muscular movements
• Constructive Play
• second level using objects or materials to make
  something
• Pretend Play
• imaginary friends

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Play

• Gender Influences
• How does it differ?

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Parenting

• Authoritarian- control and obedience
• Authoritative- respect mutually
• Permissive- self-expression and self-regulation

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Aggression

• Instrumental Aggression
• behavior used to achieve a goal
• Hostile aggression
• behavior intended to hurt someone
• Overt Aggression
• openly directed at target, boys
• Relational Aggression
• damaging relationships, girls

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Moral Development

• Piaget
• Premoral-no clear rules when making moral
  decisions
• Moral realism- moral decisions based on fixed
  rules
• Moral relativism- situations and intentions taken
  into account when making moral decisions

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Moral Development

• Kolbergs Stages
• Preconventional- right is rewarded wrong is
  punished
• Conventional- Social rules define whats right.
  Breaking the rules is wrong.
• Postconventional- Whats right is determined by
  higher-order moral principles