Emotional Development Young Children - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 26
About This Presentation
Title:

Emotional Development Young Children

Description:

Young Children. Child Psychology. Dennis Karpowitz. Erikson's Theory. Initiative versus Guilt ... 000 Reported Cases of Child Sexual Abuse. Approximately 68 ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:625
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 27
Provided by: dennishk
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Emotional Development Young Children


1
Emotional DevelopmentYoung Children
  • Child Psychology
  • Dennis Karpowitz

2
Eriksons TheoryInitiative versus Guilt
  • Conscience
  • Play

3
Freuds Phallic Stage
  • Phallic stage
  • Oedipus conflict
  • Electra conflict
  • Superego and conscience
  • Identification

4
Self-Development
  • Self-concept
  • Self-esteem, Self-worth
  • Rate own abilities highly
  • Underestimate task difficulty
  • Allows initiative

5
Emotional Development
  • Gains in representation and language
  • Rise of self-conscious emotions
  • Shame
  • Embarrassment
  • Guilt
  • Envy
  • Pride

6
Understanding Emotion
  • Ability to interpret, predict change others
    feelings
  • Focus on the most obvious
  • Talking about feelings brings emotional control
  • Make-believe play, well developed
  • Emotional knowledge increased ability to get
    along with others.

7
Emotion and Self-Regulation
  • Language emotional self-regulation
  • Emotional blunting, socially helpful
  • Communicate positive feeling
  • Temperament makes a difference
  • Fears are common because of vivid imaginations.

8
Self-Conscious Emotions
  • Injury or enhancement to sense of self
  • Audience necessary
  • Related to achievement and moral behavior
  • Success and failure
  • Good and bad
  • Often defined by parents and teachers

9
Empathy
  • Why is empathy socially important?
  • More likely to help others
  • Rely more on words than toddlers
  • Parental modeling effects their reaction to
    others suffering.

10
Peer Relations
  • Play
  • Nonsocial activity, common in 3-4 year olds
  • Parallel play
  • Associative play
  • Cooperative play
  • All types of play typical at this age
  • First friendships - pleasurable play, 4-7
  • Parental influence on peer relationships

11
Foundations of Morality
  • Age 2, concerned with how one should act
  • 1. Morality is externally, adult controlled
  • 2. Gradual development of inner standards
  • 3. Develop principles of good conduct
  • Freud and the superego - harsh standards
  • Induction - looking at consequences
  • Prosocial - altruistic behavior

12
Foundations of Morality Cont.
  • Behaviorism and social learning theory
  • Good behavior followed by rewards
  • Modeling is powerful

13
Harsh Punishment
  • Promotes momentary compliance
  • Provides children with an aggressive model
  • Teaches children to avoid punishing adults
  • Offers immediate relief to adults who are then
    reinforced for using coercive discipline

14
Mild Punishment
  • Helpful when used as follows
  • In a warm parent-child relationship
  • When used with consistency
  • When accompanied by explanation
  • When the adult is in control of him/her-self
  • When positive interactions predominate

15
Alternative of Physical Punishment
  • Redirection
  • Time out
  • Withdrawal of privileges
  • Onerous tasks
  • Talking about it
  • Reward good behavior

Catchem ben good
16
Cognition and Morality
  • Children are active thinkers
  • Social conventions gt moral rules
  • Social experiences leads to ideas about justice
    and fairness
  • Aggressive children show poor moral reasoning.

17
Aggression
  • Instrumental vs. hostile aggression
  • Overt vs. relational aggression
  • Boys more aggressive than girls
  • Girls tend to use relational aggression
  • By 2 aggression decreases in girls

18
Families Model Aggression
  • Anger and Punitiveness
  • Commands and physical punishment (boys)
  • Parents overlook fighting among boys
  • Boys less guilty about fighting than girls
  • High aggressors rejected by peers
  • Television and aggression
  • Social Problem Solving
  • Shure Spivack

19
Gender Typing
  • Role and Preferences
  • Strong among preschoolers
  • Maccoby - hormonal influences
  • Environmental influences
  • The family
  • Teachers
  • Peers
  • Television.

20
Gender Identity
  • Masculine
  • Feminine
  • Androgynous
  • Learned by
  • Modeling and reinforcement
  • Gender Constancy
  • Gender schema theory
  • Reducing unhelpful gender stereotyping

21
Child Rearing
  • Variables
  • Warmth, responsiveness
  • Verbal explanation
  • Limit setting
  • Physical or non physical punishment
  • Styles of Parenting
  • Authoritative
  • Coercive (authoritarian)
  • Permissive
  • Uninvolved

22
Parenting Styles
Warmth Reasoning Limits Phys. Pun.
Hi
Coercive
Authoritative
Permissive
Low
Uninvolved
23
Child Abuse
  • Physical Abuse
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Physical or Emotional Neglect
  • Emotional, Verbal or Psychological Abuse

24
Child Abuse Statistics
  • 1,460 child fatalities in 2005
  • Children under 3 years of age are most at risk

25
Child Abuse Statistics Cont.
  • 13.1 Million Cases Reported in 1998
  • 132 increase in one decade
  • 200,000 Reported Cases of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Approximately 68 of the cases studied
    confirmed the abuse.

26
Child Abuse Cont.
  • What signs do you look for?
  • Consistency
  • Regularity
  • Lack of logical explanation..
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com