PSYC02

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Late Childhood- individual becomes sexually socializing which provides opportunities

mature. This period is marked by conditions that for social skills.
profoundly affect a child's personal and social - these becomes vehicles for gaining
adjustment. The child enters school and has a acceptance and popularity
major change in life pattern.
Cognitive Development
Developmental Task ✧Concrete Operations
1. Learns to get along with age mates 1.Egocentrism is gone
2. Develops the basic skills of reading writing and 2.Beginnings of logical thinking
arithmetic 3.Reversibility of thought
3. Develops the concepts necessary for everyday 4.Has mastered conservation
living 5.Begins to simple understanding hypothetical
4. Develops a conscience, a sense of morality and thinking
values
5. Develops attitude towards social groups and Reversibility- the understanding that some
institutions changes can be undone by reversing an earlier
6. Learns physical skills necessary for ordinary action.
games - at age 7-12 in the concrete observational
7. Begins to develop masculine and feminine stage, children learns this concept
social roles

Typical Physical Characteristics

a. There is relatively uniform but slow physical
development
b. Weight gain is almost even throughout late
childhood and gains 2-3 inches every year.
c. More elongated far with long limbs
d. Face becomes angular from the loss of fat.
e. Teeth that begin to fall during the 6 th year are
all replaced with permanent teeth
f. Except for the wisdom tooth

Emotional Development
1. Learn to control emotional outbursts as these
are looked down
2. Happy and pleasant expressions on the other Morality Concept Development
hard are expressed freely as seen in laughing, ● Conventional Morality- concept of morality is
giggling, or jumping mostly based in consideration of what “others”
3. May show moodiness or resort to sulking have to say
4. Boys tend to show anger ‘or curiosity while girls ⮚ Stage 3 (Good boy/Nice girl Orientation)-
experience fears, worries and feelings of child conforms to acceptable behavior to avoid
affection disapproval/dislike by others
⮚ Stage 4 (Law & Order Orientation)- being
Social Skills Development good means respecting and obeying the law
1. Strong desire to be an accepted member and authority figures to preserve social order.
of the peer group
2. Development and adoption of sex roles
3. Engagement with same sex ‘gangs’ as
playmates.
- Play for the older child is not a mere
amusement, it is the chief instrument of