Exam 8: Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood

Explain the difference between instrumental aggression and relational aggression.

Taran's father plays basketball with his friends using a hoop set up in the driveway. Taran has been watching them, and decides he wants to try playing. His dad shows him how to shoot the ball, then gives it to Taran. Taran throws it, and it falls far short of the basket. Taran is excited and tries again, with the ball falling short a second time. His dad is encouraging, and Taran tells him, "I'll get it this time!" and makes another attempt. Which concept is Taran displaying?

Think about your favorite type of play when you were a child. Why was it your favorite? What skills do you think you gained from this type of play?

When children play alongside each other but exchange toys and talk about each other's activities, they are engaging in what form of play?

A child's temperament is related to which type of influence on prosocial behavior?

Who is most likely to be a perpetrator of child maltreatment?

Which culture is most likely associated with children feeling sadness and shame in response to failure?

Explain the importance of peer relationships.

A statement that describes aggression in young children is that it ______.

Transgender children experience incongruence between their biological sex and their gender ______.

Which parenting style results in a parent most likely responding to a child's question of, "Why?" with the answer, "Because I say so"?

Which characteristic occurs in children who experience child maltreatment?

Children playing alongside each other but avoiding interaction with each other are engaging in what type of play?

Methods that use reasoning to correct behavior are called ______.

Elijah and Jack are pretending to be pirates. Hannah wants to play too, but the boys tell her, "No! You're a girl!" Which concept are Elijah and Jack demonstrating?

Which area shows the largest gender difference between boys and girls?

Gender schema theory is an explanation tied to the contextual explanation of gender role development.

A full understanding of gender constancy occurs by which age?

The view that males adapted to become aggressive and competitive to secure a mate and pass on genes follows which explanation of gender role development?

Most young children sleep how many hours each night?