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Industry
Developing a sense of competence at skills and social rules important to your culture
Inferiority
Pessimism and lack of confidence in own ability to do things well 
Industry in childhood is more closely correlated to what than IQ?
Adult success
Self-Concept in Middle Childhood
Start to give some psychological descriptors  Start dividing self-concept into multiple parts Start engaging in social comparison 
Self-Esteem in Middle Childhood
Increases steadily during middle childhood, with slight drop at 12
Mastery-oriented attributions
Credit success to high ability, failure to insufficient effort  Leads to high self-esteem & willingness to approach challenging tasks
Learned Helplessness
Credit success to external factors (ex luck), failure to low ability  Leads to low self-esteem, anxiety in face of challenges, giving up 
Stages of Relationships with Peers (3)
1) Basing friendship on other's behaviors (4-7) 2) Basing Friendship on Trust (8-10) 3) Basing friendship on Psychological Closeness (11 and up)
Peer Groups
Social units who generate values, standards for behavior and a social hierarchy 
Peer Acceptance
Extent to which a child is viewed by a group of peers as a worthy social partner
Categories of Peer Acceptance (5)
1) Popular- often liked, rarely disliked 2) Rejected- rarely liked, often disliked  3) Neglected- neither liked nor disliked  4)Controversial- liked by many, disliked by many  5) Average- some like, some dislike, in the middle 
Border work
Briefly interacting with the opposite gender group to help define boundaries between groups 
Brain Development in Middle Childhood
Cont. pruning of unused synapses Growth and myenlination of stimulated neurons speeds up  Connections between areas of the brain strengthen  Maturation of the limbic system happens before the maturation of the prefrontal cortex Neurons become more responsive to excitatory neurotransmi…
Circadian Rhythm shifts in Middle Childhood
Get sleepy later, want to wake up later Still need 9 hours of sleep but often do not get it 
Adolescent growth spurt
Period of rapid growth when body takes on adult proportions Cephalocaudal principles reverses Adolescence grow distal to inner
Female Development
Start 10.5 Fastest for height age 12, weight 12.5 Finish: 16 Develop more fat in breasts, hips; hips widen
Male Development
Start 13 Fastest for height age 13.5, weight 14 Finish 18-20 Develop more muscle mass, broader shoulders
Puberty
Biological change resulting in sexual, reproductive maturity 
Female Puberty
Starts @9-11: development of breast buds Menarche (first menstruation)- average in US is 12.5 Other changes Hair growth Widening of hips, rounding of body Maturation of reproductive organs
Male Puberty
Begins @11-12 with enlargement of testes Scrotum thickens, testes fully descend Spermarche (initial ejaculation)- average age of 13 SPerm production- average age 14 Other changes Increase in muscle mass Hair growth Voice changes Sexual organs mature
Secular Trend
Shift in pattern of characteristics over time 
Formal operations
Develop Hypotheticodeductive reasoning and inductive reasoning
Hypotheticodeductive reasoning
Can make hypotheses about objects/events that are not real 
Inductive Reasoning
Ability to go from specific observations to broad generalizations 
Adolescent egocentrism
State of self-absorption in which the world is viewed from one's own point of view  Imaginary audience Personal fable
Imaginary Audience
Belief that everyone around is as interested in their thought and behaviors as they are
Personal Fable
Part of adolescent egocentrismt hat involves feeling special, unique, invincible 
Realativistic Thinking
Realizing knowledge if subjective and relative Teens are absolutists Adults may be relativist Students get more relativistic during college years
Moral Reasoning
Thinking process that occurs when we decide what is right/wrong
Kohlberg Tests
Tested people by asking how they would respond to moral dilemmas Actual decision isn't as important as reasons why they made decision Reason why is what determines stages 
Preconventional Morality
Rules are external rather than internalized
Conventional Morality
Guided by internalized morals 
Postconventional Morality
Develop broadly defined ethical principles not set by authority 
Stages of Morality
Stage 1: Obedience and Punishment orientation Stage 2: Instrumental Hedonism Stage 3: Good boy or good girl morality Stage 4: Authority & Social-order maintaining morality Stage 5: Social contract orientation Stage 6: Morality of individual principles of conscience
Identity
Mature self-definition, sense of who one is, where one is going how one fits into society 
Identity Crisis
A time of uncertainty, anxiety about identity 
Marcia's Identity Statuses
Identity diffusion- haven't experienced, not committed Identity Foreclosure- haven't experienced, committed  Identity moratorium- experienced, not commited Identity achievement- experienced, committed  Achievement = closer relationships, higher self esteem, achievement motivation, C& …
Cliques
A small group of friends who interact regularly
Crowds
Large group of peers who have similar stereotyped reputations, values, attitudes, behaviors, ways of expressing themselves 
Coregulation
A period in which children and parents jointly control children's behavior 
Sibling Rivalry
Competing or quarreling with one siblings, most intense when similar in age and same sex 
Self-Cared Child
Children who let themselves into their own homes after school and wait alone until parents return from work 
Role Ambiguity
Roles and expectations are unclear 
Anorexia Nervosa
Individuals refuse to eat
Bulimia
Binging, eating large amounts of food, followed by purging of the food by vomiting or using laxatives 
Addictive Drugs
Drugs that produce a biological or psychological dependence in users, leading to increasingly powerful cravings for them 
Binge Drinking
Men drinking 5 or more drinks in one sitting and women drinking 4 drinks in one sitting 
Alcoholics
Learn to depend on alcohol and are unable to control their drinking 
Trichomoniasis
Infection in the vagina or penis that is caused by a parasite, intially without symptoms but can cause painful discharge 
Academic disidentification
Lack of personal identification with an academic domain 
Cluster Suicide
One suicide leads to attempts by others to kill themselves 
Autonomy
Independence and sense of control over their lives 
Generation gap
A deep divide between parents and children in attitudes, values, aspirations, and worldviews 
Reference Group
Groups of people with whom one compares oneself 
Sex Cleavage
Boyds hang out with boys, girls with girls, before puberty, after puberty they see other gender with more interest in terms of personality and sexuality 
Peer Pressure
The influence of one's peers to conform to their behavior and attitudes
Transgendered
People feel they were born the wrong physical sex 

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