Monday, May 5, 2014

Crisis seven years


Crisis seven yearsAt school age the number of factors affecting the child's self-esteem, expand considerably, writes in his book child psychology Efimkin R. P.


In children aged 9 to 12 years continues to form the desire for all to have their point of view. They also appear judgments about their own social importance of self - ratings. It is through the development of self-awareness and feedback from those of others, whose opinion they value. The high score is usually in children if parents treat them with interest, warmth and love.




However, 12-13 years the child develops a new view of herself, when self-esteem loses dependence on situations of success, failure, and becomes stable. Self-esteem now expresses the relation in which the image itself belongs to the ideal I




Primary school age is the completion of the development of consciousness.





Reflection intellectual


Mean reflection in terms of thinking. The child begins to think about the reasons why he thinks so, and not otherwise. Occurs correction mechanism of their thinking by logic, theoretical knowledge. Therefore, the child becomes able to subdue the intention intellectual goals, ability to hold it for a long time.




In the school years, the ability to store and retrieve information from memory is improving, developing metaplace. Children not only remember, but also able to reflect on how they do it. In the studies performed by storing the list of items preschoolers not coped with the task, and students remembered all subjects. They purposefully repeated, organized in memory, improved information in order to better remember, and then to be able to tell what techniques they used to help their memory.





Mental development


7 - 11 years - the third period of cognitive development piaget - period specific mental operations. Thinking of the child is limited to issues relating to specific real objects.




Self-centeredness inherent in the thinking of the preschool child, gradually decreases, aided cooperative play, but does not disappear completely. Specifically thinking children are often wrong, predicting the result. As a consequence, the children, once formulating any hypothesis, rather reject new facts than to change their point of view.




Replaced the decentration comes the ability to focus on multiple characteristics at once, to relate them to take into account multiple measurements of the state of an object or event.




The child develops the ability to mentally track changes feature. Occurs reversible thinking.





Relationships with adults


On the behavior and development of children is affected by the leadership style from adults: authoritarian, democratic or populatemsi (anarchist). Children feel better and more successful developing under conditions of democratic leadership.





Relationships with peers


Since the age of six, children spend more time with peers, and almost always of the same sex. Increases conformism, reaching its peak to 12 years. Popular kids are usually well-adapted, feel comfortable among their peers and, as a rule, able to cooperate.





Game


Still plenty of time children spend playing. It develops a sense of cooperation and competition, acquire personal meaning of such concepts as justice and injustice, prejudice, equality, leadership, obedience, loyalty, betrayal.




The game takes social coloring: kids invent secret societies, clubs, secret maps, codes, passwords, and special rituals. Roles and rules children's society allow you to learn the rules adopted in the society of adults. Play with friends in age from 6 to 11 years take up the most time.





Emotional development


When the child went to school, his emotional development is more than ever depends on the experience he gets outside the house.




Fears reflect the perception of the surrounding world, which is now expanding. Inexplicable and imaginary fears of the past years are replaced by other, more conscious: the lessons injections, natural phenomena, relationships between peers. Fear can take the form of anxiety or worry.




From time to time in children of school age receive an unwillingness to go to school. Symptoms (headache, cramps in the stomach, vomiting, dizziness) was widely known. This is not a simulation, and in such cases it is important as soon as possible to find out the reason. This can be fear of failure, fear of criticism from teachers, fear of being rejected by parents or peers. In such cases, help a friend-persistent interest of parents in the child to attend school.





Source:

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