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Check Your Understanding Questions

Lifespan DevelopmentCheck Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

20 .
How do self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy differ?
21 .
What is the primary challenge children face during Erikson’s industry versus inferiority stage?
22 .
How does emotion regulation help children during middle childhood? How are metacognitive skills related to development of emotion regulation?
23 .
According to Piaget, how does moral reasoning develop during middle childhood? What were Piaget’s two stages of moral reasoning?
24 .
In what ways is bullying different from cyberbullying?
25 .
In what ways do parent-child relationships change in middle childhood? In what ways do they stay the same?
26 .
What is classroom climate? What aspects of the classroom climate support positive socioemotional development for children?
27 .
What is a dependent teacher-child relationship? Why might this relationship form?
28 .
List the steps in constructing an individualized education program.
29 .
Describe internalizing and externalizing behaviors that may be seen during middle childhood.
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