MORAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR IN LATE CHILDHOOD

3. Life • Understand difference in living and non-living
Death • Understand meaning of death
• Emotional weighing based on those around them
Life after death • Based on religious instruction children receive
Bodily functions • Study hygiene
Space • Scales and rules
• Learn meaning of measuring rules
Numbers • Understand number concepts 1000 and beyond

4. Causality • Understand physical causality but not psychological
causality
Money • Understand value of coins and bills
Time • Develop concept about what they can accomplish in a
given period of time
Self • Concepts of themselves clarified when they see from
their teacher's perspective and compare to classmates
Sex roles • Learn male is dominant over female
Beauty • Judge beauty based on group standards rather than their
own opinion
Comic
• Concept of comics are based on what they observed
and what they can understand

5. Their moral codes gradually
approach those of the adults
with whom they are associated
and their behavior conforms
more closely to the standards
set up by those adults.
Moral codes develop from
generalizes moral concept.

6. • Children with high
IQs,
Boys

7. Effect

8. Consistency
Aids in building moral
code
Punishment
Rewards

9. ■ Conscience - conditioned anxiety response to certain kinds of
situations and actions which has been built up by associating
certain acts with punishments.
 Guilt – special kind of negative evaluation that occurs when an
individual acknowledge that his behavior is at variance with a
given moral value to which he feels obligated to conform.
■ Shame – the unpleasant emotion reaction of an individual to
an actual or presume negative judgment of himself by others,
resulting self-depreciation.

10. ■ Ignorance of what is expected
of them
■ Misunderstanding of the rules
■ Children’s testing of authority
■ Attempts to assert their
independence
■ Children’s conformity to gang
misbehavior

11. Home Misdemeanors
School Misdemeanors
 Fighting with siblings
 Neglecting home responsibilities
 Lying
 Being sneaky
 Stealing, Cheating, Lying
 Reading comic books or chewing gum
during school hours.
 Being truant

13. – Ordinal Positions
– Unstable home environment
– Unstable social environment

14. – Physical Conditions
– Body build
– Names and Nicknames
– Socioeconomic Status
– School environment
– Social Acceptance
– Success and Failures
– Sex
– Intelligence

15.  They then form
concept of the
ideal self, the kind
of the person they
would like to be.

16. ‘’Identity’’ means a sense of
being able to function as a
separate person but with a close
relationship to others.
(Explaining by Erikson)