Outline for Chapter 8

Chapter 8
Social and Personality Development in Early Childhood

Theories of Social and Personality Development

I Psychoanalytic perspectives
II Social-cognitive perspectives

Family relationships and structure

I Attachment
II Parenting styles
III Ethnicity, Socioeconomic status, and parenting skills
IV Family Structure
V Divorce
VI Understanding the effects of family structure and divorce

Peer Relationships

I Relating to peers through play
II Aggression
III Prosocial behavior and friendships

Personality and self-concept

I from temperament to personality
II self-concept

The Gender concept and sex roles

I Explaining gender concept and sex-role development
II the gender concept
III sex-role knowledge
IV sex-typed behavior