SCHOOL YEARS (Middle childhood and Adolescence):
- Growing individual abilities:
- Operationalism and complex reasoning, theories of intelligence
- Ethnic and family influences
- Children who are different
- Word sense and reading, writing, math concepts, schools and teachers
- Physical activity and sports
- Growing social competencies:
- Family relationships (parents, siblings, problems)
- Poverty and social climate
- Peers and friends: fitting in, popularity, rejection, bullying and aggression
- TV and video games, electronic media
- What others think
- Prejudice, stereotyping, etc.
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