Is the family on the rocks? Just how good are three year-old violin players? Is nursery school better than pre school? Are kids really getting taller? Is "play" kids work?

After completing the Learning Activities for this Section, you should be able to:

1. IDENTIFY and EVALUATE the influences of birth order on personality development.
2. IDENTIFY changes during early childhood per height and weight.
3. DEFINE and ASSESS the three psychometric intelligence inventories.
4. IDENTIFY and CONTRAST the major factors in the development of gender identity.
5. DEFINE the term androgyny.
6. ACCOUNT for why aggressive behaviors occur in early childhood.
7. COMPARE and CONTRAST how a child's play is influenced by gender.
8. DEFINE altruism.
9. ILLUSTRATE the differences between cognitive play and social play.
10. IDENTIFY the common accountabilities of childhood accidents. 

VIDEO PROGRAMS:  #8  "The Play Years: Biosocial..." #9 "The Play Years: Cognitive..."
                                                        #10 "The Play Years: Psychosocial..."

TEXT: Read Chapters 7, 8 and 9.

INTERNET SITES:

Is middle childhood like middle earth? Who is Pygmalion and what effect did he have on teachers? Why are Asian children so smart in school? Were you a nerd in school? Are our kids "crazy?" Is divorce normal?

After completing the Learning Activities for this Section, you should be able to:

1. IDENTIFY and CONTRAST everything.
2. ASSESS why some children do much better in school than others.
3. DESCRIBE and EVALUATE how ADHD affects children's ability to learn.
4. DEFINE giftedness.
5. IDENTIFY and APPLY the concept of self-identity.
6. IDENTIFY and APPLY the concept of self-esteem.
7. DESCRIBE positive and negative effects of peers.
8. IDENTIFY common reactions of children to parents who are divorcing.
9. DESCRIBE and CONTRAST various types of step-families.
10. IDENTIFY ways children can better adjust to stress.

VIDEO PROGRAMS: #11 "The School Years: Biosocial..."  #12 "The School Years: Cognitive..."

TEXT: Read  Chapter 9 (again) and Chapter 10

INTERNET SITES:

Are boys smarter than girls? What is a menarche? Is there a difference between being fat or being obese? Do peers drink beer? Does money cause success? Is reward the same as a bribe?

After completing the Learning Activities for this Section, you should be able to:

1. RECOGNIZE the primary and secondary sex characteristics of males.
2. REOGNIZE the primary and secondary sex characteristics of females.
3. DEFINE and APPLY the term menarche.
4. COMPARE and CONTRAST the effects of early or late maturation regarding boys.
5. COMPARE and CONTRAST the effects of early or late maturation regarding girls.
6. IDENTIFY which STDs are curable.
7. IDENTIFY and ASSESS Kohlberg's levels of morality.
8. IDENTIFY how socioeconomic status is related to academic achievement.
9. UNDERSTAND how different parenting styles may influence school success.
10. IDENTIFY reasons for dropping out of high school.

VIDEO PROGRAMS: #13 "The School Years: Psychosocial ..."  #14  "Adolescence: Biosocial..."

TEXT: Read Chapter 11

INTERNET SITES:

Is it okay for boys to cry? Should girls play football? Will masturbation make you deaf? If male homosexuality the result of playing with dolls? Why does the US have the highest teen pregnancy rate? Are all kids delinquent, but only some get caught? Does practice make perfect when it comes to sex?

After completing the Learning Activities for this Section, you should be able to:

1. DESCRIBE and ASSESS the psychosexual differences between males and females.
2. IDENTIFY differences between males and females regarding psychosocial development.
3. COMPARE and CONTRAST adolescent's attitudes about sex differences from their actual sexual practices.
4. IDENTIFY and EVALUATE how and why relationships change between children and parents during adolescence.
5. RECOGNIZE why sibling relationships change during adolescence.
6. UNDERSTAND how peers influence adolescent social development.
7. IDENTIFY and ASSESS why adolescent females become pregnant.
8. IDENTIFY and ASSESS why adolescent males become "fathers."
9. IDENTIFY accountabilities for juvenile delinquency.
10. DESIGNATE strengths of adolescent personalities 

Learning Activities

TEXT: Read Chapter 12

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SELF TEST for MODULE TWO 

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Below are fifteen sample test items. They are presented as so to give you an idea of what kind of questions to expect on the Test that counts. Additionally, they will serve as a review. A good score is twelve or more correct.
 

1. Which social structure seems to have the most lasting effect on a child's personality?
1. family
2. peers
3. school
4. church
 

2. The degree of independence a child is expected to display is:
1. unrelated to the child's sex.
2. sex-tied and culturally determined.
3. sex-tied and biologically determined.
4. the same in all industrial societies.
 

3. A father, pointing to the White House, tells his five year-old, "That's where the President of the United States lives." The child replies, "Does he know where I live?" This exchange best illustrates:
1. egocentrism.
2. transductive thinking.
3. mental retardation.
4. experimental reductionism.
 

4. In the United States, the leading cause of death in children is/are:
1. cancer
2. inadequate nutrition
3. accidents
4. AID
 

5. Enuresis:
1. tends to run in families.
2. is most common among children who were toilet-trained before the age of 18 months.
3. is a serious childhood problem.
4. is more common among boys than girls..
 

6. In his most famous experiment, Piaget tested children's ability to sense that two things that are equal remain so if their shape is altered so long as nothing is added or taken away. This is called:
1. conservation
2. irreversibility
3. egocentrism
4. transduction
 

7. Awareness of one's maleness or femaleness is called
1. values clarification
2. gender identity
3. "goodness of fit"
4. altruism
 

8. Freud's psychoanalytic theory proposes that identification results from
1. social success
2. imitating the parent of the opposite sex
3. repression or abandonment of the wish to possess the parent of the opposite sex.
4. becoming aggressive toward the parent of the opposite sex
 

9. Proponents of social learning theory believe that children's identity is formed by
1. observing a model
2. acting like a model
3. wanting to be like a model
4. all of the above
 

10. Differences in physical skills and motor abilities between boys and girls aged six to twelve are largely due to
1. inherent differences in anatomy
2. hormone differences that affect the development of muscle
3. differences in eating patterns and nutrition
4. differences in participation and expectations
 

11. Which of the following factors can introduce cultural bias to tests designed to measure innate intelligence?

1. language
2. test questions which favor children from advantaged homes
3. arbitrary decisions by test developers about which answers to accept
4. all of the above
 

12. The successful resolution of Erikson's fourth crisis, industry versus inferiority, is
1. popularity
2. competence
3. love
4. the virtue of purpose
 

13. Characteristics directly related to reproduction are called
1. secondary sex characteristics
2. primary sex characteristics
3. secular trend
4. pubescence indicators
 

14. Most psychologists today would probably hold the view that
1. most differences between males and females are a result of biology
2. most differences between males and females are a result of socialization
3. most differences between males and females are artifacts of researcher bias
4. there are, in reality, no psychological differences between males and females
 

15. Peers have more influence than parents on teenagers' decisions about
1. moral dilemmas
2. what job to take
3. everyday social issues
4. what education to pursue

ANSWERS TO SELF TEST: (1) 1, (2) 2, (3) 1, (4) 3, (5) 4, (6) 1, (7) 2, (8) 3, (9) 4, (10) 1, (11) 4, (12) 2, (13) 2, (14) 3, (15) 3.