Emotional and Moral Development Study Guide.

Module 4
Emotional intelligence- to be able to understand, express, and take control of emotions.
Emotional understanding- to be able to understand your emotions and others, differentiate and interpret.
Self-awareness- (18-24 months) when you can recognize your own thoughts and feelings. Then you can make decisions and act on them.
Emotional regulation- When you can regulate/ manage emotions. You are able to take control of them.
Social referencing- A strategy in helping other people with their emotions and reactions.
Self-motivation- When you can generate enthusiasm and confidence during something challenging. 
Social-emotional learning (SEL)- goes with a school setting, and talks about social and emotional influences for success. Three important things 1) caring relationships are the foundation of all lasting learning 2) emotions affect how and what we learn & 3) goal setting and problem solving provide focus, direction and energy for learning.
Module 5
Morality- What we perceive to be right and wrong.
Moral reasoning- when we rationalize things in our choices in making right and wrong decisions.
Piaget's theory of moral development- a two-step process of cognitive and moral development.
Moral realism- first stage, what children see to be right and wrong, is determined by consequence of behavior that is given by adults.
Morality of cooperation- autonomy, when you understand that in certain circumstances rules can be bent. Understanding more of the complexities of right and wrong.
Kohlberg’s stages of moral development- piaget’s student, his belief was that the two-step process was much more to be involved his process has three stages.
Gilligan's criticisms of Kohlberg- He believes his theory to be too focused on “justice as the overarching  theme” , a lot of what he believes theorist do it focuses mostly on men, when women and men are very different.
Moral dilemmas- a situation in which there is a problem dealing with our moral reasoning and reactions.
Caring orientation- deals with other peoples needs, helping our interpersonal relationships.
Justice orientation- deals with the rights of individuals, focusing on independence and individuality.
Prosocial behavior- voluntary actions that are sopose to help others through sharing. 
Perspective taking- stage 0, egocentric viewpoint stage 1, social-informational role talking stage 2, self-reflective role taking stage 3, mutual role taking stage 4, social and conventional system role taking.