Questions and CORRECT Answers
Social competence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The ability to recognize, interpret, and
respond appropriately in social situations.
6 elements of social competence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Emotional intelligence
Social values
Positive self-identity
Interpersonal skills
Self-regulation
Planning & Decision making
Cultural Competence
Emotional intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Recognizes emotions in self and others
-Demonstrates empathy
-Gives and receives emotional support
-Labels emotions and communicates feelings
-Manages frustration, disappointment, and distress in healthy ways
Social values - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Caring
-Helpfulness
-Equity
-Social justice
-Honesty
-Responsibility
-Healthy lifestyles and sexual attitudes
-Flexibility
Positive self-identity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Self-awareness
,-Sense of competence
-Personal power
-Sense of worth
-Sense of purpose
-Positive view of personal future
Interpersonal skills - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Establishes friendly relationships
-Communicates ideas and needs
-Cooperates, and helps
-"Reads" social situations accurately
-Adjusts behavior to fit varying social situations
-Resolves conflicts peacefully
-Asserts own ideas, accepts others ideas
-Acknowledges other peoples rights
Self-regulation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Controls impulses
-Delays gratification
-Resists temptation
-Resists peer pressure
-Exhibits prosocial behavior
-Monitors self
Planning & Decision making - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Makes choices
-Solves problems
-Develops plans
-Plans ahead
-Carries out positive actions to achieve social goals
Cultural Competence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Demonstrates knowledge, comfort with
and respect for people of varying ethnic or racial backgrounds
, -Interacts effectively with people of varying cultural, ethnic or racial backgrounds
-Recognizes unfair treatment
-Questions unfair treatment
-Acts to obtain social justice
the facilitation dimension - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The process of creating emotionally
supportive relationships with children; the basis for any successful interaction with children;
composed of five components: empathy, warmth, respect, acceptance, and authenticity.
the action dimension - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The process of teaching and guiding
children to maintain or change their own behaviors.
how are the two dimensions related - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Fundamental importance of empathy to social competence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Understand that all development is interrelated (the ecological principle) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-
Microsystems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The entire array of people, roles, and
interpersonal relationships experienced by a child in a face-to-face setting such as home or
school. (School, childcare, religous)
Mesosystems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The combination of microsystems in which a
person is directly involved
Exosystems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- People and settings that indirectly affect what
happens in the microsystem.
Macrosystems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Significant ideas such as patterns of beliefs,
laws, customs, and cultural traditions.