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Social and Emotional Development in...
Learning Objectives
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In this chapter, students should learn:
- how young children develop a sense of self and their positive and negative feelings associated with their developing sense of self
- how young children come to understand that they are a boy or a girl, their gender-related stereotypes, preferences, and behaviors, and the theories that explain gender development
- how young children deal with anger and aggression, and how they develop prosocial emotions and actions
- how parents influence their children, especially through discipline, and the factors that determine parents' use of different types of discipline
- how young children understand family transitions, such as divorce and remarriage, and how these transitions affect them
- how young children relate to, and play with, other children, including brothers and sisters, and the factors that influence these relationships
- and the role of television in young children's development and how it affects their positive and negative behaviors
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