Exam 13: Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood

Luka likes to set group activities and control the toys and play spaces in his second-grade class. Luka would be considered a(n) ____________ child.

Children usually experience an increase in socioeconomic status after their parents' divorce.

Middle childhood can be best characterized as:

According to Kohlberg, until ten years of age, children's moral reasoning is based on considerations of rewards and punishments.

In a classic study on cooperation and competition by Muzafer and Carolyn Sherif (1956), two groups of boys were formed at summer camps in Oklahoma. A series of tasks were arranged for them, some requiring competition and others requiring cooperation. What is one of the major conclusions we can draw from their study?

Barry Schneider and his colleagues identified which of the following as a basic social goal that children in a variety of cultures follow?

Children are more likely to have high self-esteem when their parents:

Sarah is concerned with social standards and rules when she thinks about moral dilemmas. Kohlberg would say that she is at the ____________ level of moral development.

Research examining the relationship between social and family variables could be expected to find that rejected boys would be more likely to come from:

Juan wants to play marbles with his friend James, but as they start to play it becomes clear that they have different ideas about what the rules are. They get upset with each other. Juan says, "My mom said we were supposed to play this way." James says, "That's wrong. My mom said it was this way." What are the boys displaying?

With regard to social comparison, children's sensitivity to themselves in relation to others their own age increases significantly around the age of:

According to Freud, the part of the personality that monitors and evaluates whether the individual's actions are morally appropriate is called the:

Peer victimization decreases from the middle school years through adolescence because:

Kohlberg's theory of moral development:

Victimized children tend to:

Harter found that when children evaluate themselves, their self- evaluations are:

The most common cause of rejection of children by their peers is:

Those with high self-esteem during middle childhood likely had parents who did all of the following EXCEPT:

Mrs. and Mr. Milton monitor and guide their son John's behavior and decision making, while letting him have more responsibility and control over his own life. This exemplifies the process of ____________.

According to Kohlberg, when children achieve the stage of instrumental morality they: