KEY TERMS

Match each of the terms on the left with its definition on the right. Click on the term first and then click on the matching definition. As you match them correctly they will move to the bottom of the activity.

Question

industry versus inferiority
latency
social comparison
resilience
family structure
family function
nuclear family
single-parent family
extended family
polygamous family
child culture
aggressive-rejected
withdrawn-rejected
bullying
bully-victim
preconventional moral reasoning
conventional moral reasoning
postconventional moral reasoning
The tendency to assess one’s abilities, achievements, social status, and other attributes by measuring them against those of other people, especially one’s peers.
A family that consists of a father, a mother, and their biological children under age 18.
A family of three or more generations living in one household.
Rejected by peers because of timid, withdrawn, and anxious behavior.
A family that consists of only one parent and his or her biological children under age 18.
Repeated, systematic efforts to inflict harm through physical, verbal, or social attack on a weaker person.
Kohlberg’s second level of moral reasoning, emphasizing social rules.
The fourth of Erikson’s eight psychosocial crises, during which children attempt to master many skills, developing a sense of themselves as either industrious or inferior, competent or incompetent.
The legal and genetic relationships among relatives; includes nuclear family, extended family, stepfamily, and so on.
People who attack others and who are attacked as well. (Also called provocative victims because they do things that elicit bullying.)
A family consisting of one man, several wives, and their children.
The capacity to adapt well to significant adversity and to overcome serious stress.
Kohlberg’s first level of moral reasoning, emphasizing rewards and punishments.
Rejected by peers because of antagonistic, confrontational behavior.
Kohlberg’s third level of moral reasoning, emphasizing moral principles.
The particular habits, styles, and values that reflect the set of rules and rituals that characterize children as distinct from adult society.
The way a family works to meet the needs of its members. Children need families to provide basic material necessities, to encourage learning, to help them develop self-respect, to nurture friendships, and to foster harmony and stability.
Freud’s term for middle childhood, during which children’s emotional drives and psychosexual needs are quiet (latent). Freud thought that sexual conflicts from earlier stages are only temporarily submerged, bursting forth again at puberty.