Chapter 13: Chapter 13: Psychosocial DevelopmentPsychosocial Development

The School YearsThe School Years

Michael Hoerger

Middle ChildhoodMiddle Childhood

• A time to develop social skills– Freud: latency stage– Erikson: industry vs. inferiority– Social cognitive theory: using past

experiences for social reasoning

• Children become less ego-centric, more concerned with social evaluation

BullyingBullying

• Repeatedly inflicting physical or social harm

• Bullying = 80%

• Bullied = 65%

• Peaks in middle school

• Resilience: ability to overcome significant stressors

Michael Hoerger

To cite this textbook:• Berger, K. (2005). The developing person

through the lifespan. New York: Worth.

To cite this lecture:• Hoerger, M. (2007, February 26).

Developmental Psychology: Pre-Adolescent Psychosocial Development. Presented at a PSY 220 lecture at Central Michigan University.