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2.1 HLC - School Age Development Flashcards

1
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Age range for “School Age”

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6 years old to pubescence

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2
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The end of the School Age period is defined by…

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…the emergence of puberty, associated with onset of adolescent behavior.

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T/F: Puberty is always synonymous with adolescence.

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FALSE

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Identify the Psychologist: School Age is the new stage of operational thinking and development of new capacity for learning.

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Piaget

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Identify the Psychologist: School Age is the Age of Industry; tendency of children to be persistent and task-oriented

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Erickson

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Identify the Psychologist: School Age is referred to as the juvenile era, where consolidation of early attachments and the potential to move to adolescence occurs.

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Sullivan

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Identify the Psychologist: School Age is the period that follows the resolution of the Oedipus Complex, and subsequent reorganization in behavior and acuity

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Freud

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Identify the Psychologist: School Age is a latency, wherein early infantile sexuality is repressed, and remains latent until puberty

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Freud

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Identify the Psychologist: School Age is also known as middle childhood, characterized by temperaments

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Thomas and Chess

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The 3 Types of Temperaments

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Easy, Slow to Warm Up, and Difficult

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This becomes a crucial issue during middle childhood.

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Morality

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Age at which children tend to have increasing awareness of self and of others.

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7 years old

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Age at which children tend to produce brash reactions and bursts of activity.

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6 years old

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14
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Age at which children tend to exhibit more calmness and self-absorption.

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7 years old

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Age at which a child is “no longer a mere child, nor is he/she a youth” .

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9 years old

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Age at which children are typically subjected to or are involved in bullying.

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8 years old

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17
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Age at which children reach more of an adult standard.

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8 years old

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18
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Age at which children are more compassionate, very competitive, develops an ethical sense, and quits when play gets too bad.

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7 years old

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According to Gesell and Ilg, it is the age at which children begin quieting down.

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7 years old

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Age at which children develop a growing preoccupation with themselves, along with an increased interest in peer relationships

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9 years old

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21
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Age known as the “Age of Reason”

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7 years old

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T/F: A child less than 7 years of age will usually be given to the mother if there are custody problems.

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TRUE

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23
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Necessary components for the development of Empathy

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Love, Compassion, and Sharing

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A young boy with an Oedipus Complex will favor this parent over the other.

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His mother.

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Resolution of the Oedipus Complex

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Resolved by having a good relationship with both genders (typically occurs around the adolescence phase)

26
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T/F: According to Piaget, the school age is a good age to expose a child to different things such as travel, music, sports, etc.

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FALSE. This is according to Freud.

27
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T/F: According to Freud, the school age is characterized by the emergence of industriousness, more relationships, and belonging to a peer group.

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TRUE

28
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According to Freud, this is the age at which the superego or conscience should be developed.

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10 years old

29
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The 3 typical characteristics of an 8 year old.

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1) Speediness
2) Expansiveness
3) Evaluativeness

30
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Age at which a child’s brain weight is 90% of that of the adult brain.

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5 years old (samplex)

7 years old (trans)

31
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Age at which children typically exhibit marked improvement in fine motor control.

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8 (other sources say 8-10) years old

32
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According to Anna Freud’s Developmental Lines, transitions to school age development, Egocentricity transitions into…

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Companionship

33
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According to Anna Freud’s Developmental Lines, transitions to school age development, Dependency transitions into…

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Independence

34
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According to Anna Freud’s Developmental Lines, transitions to school age development, Lack of Control transitions into…

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Control of Bodily Functions

35
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According to Anna Freud’s Developmental Lines, transitions to school age development, Focus on Play transitions into…

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Focus on Work (a lag in development may occur during this stage)

36
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The 5 Emergent Patterns of Development during the school age

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1) Steady development progression.
2) Behavior difficulties early in life that resolve during middle school.
3) Early behavioral problems and development of new problems associated with new sources of stress.
4) Early childhood behavioral problems that persist into middle childhood.
5) Entirely new problems during middle childhood.

37
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T/F: According to Chess and Thomas, difficult children express early behaviors that are correlated with later school problems, social difficulties, and psychiatric disorders.

A

TRUE

38
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T/F: According to Chess and Thomas, difficult children show slow adaptability to new situations, but have positive reactions to new stimuli.

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FALSE. Difficult children have INTENSELY NEGATIVE reactions to new stimuli.

39
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Fill-In the Blank: In terms of biological development, _____ development and functions related to memory are completed by age ____.

A

Hippocampal; 7.

40
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Fill-In the Blank: In terms of biological development, if you traumatize a child, they can develop a problem in the _____ ______

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Limbic System

41
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T/F: In terms of biological development, synaptic pruning of dendritic connections in the brain commences during the school age; connections reach a high point and begin to level off.

A

TRUE

42
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T/F: In terms of biological development, linguistic pathways are still undefined in middle childhood.

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FALSE. Linguistic pathways are MORE RIGIDLY DEFINED.

43
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Fill-In the Blank: In terms of biological development, there is a passage from ______ memory to emergence of ______ memory.

A

Procedural (easy access to motor patterns); Declarative (map of the territory)

44
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Fill-In the Blank: In terms of cognitive development, there is a shift from ______ to ______ operations

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Irreversible; Reversible

45
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T/F: In terms of cognitive development, school age children can engage in logical dialogue and produce casual sequences.

A

TRUE

46
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T/F: In terms of cognitive development, school age children can make predictions about relationships or about consequences.

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TRUE

47
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T/F: In terms of cognitive development, school age children are unable to use past experiences to reproduce a chain of related circumstances.

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FALSE. Children are able to use past experiences.

48
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The cognitive process that allows the school age child to learn effectively in school.

A

Concrete Operations

49
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T/F: In terms of cognitive development, school age children are able to use integrative reasoning, insight, and inferential behavior.

A

TRUE

50
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Age at which the capacities for love, compassion, and sharing are normally developed.

A

10 years old

51
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T/F: In terms of emotional development, school age children are more socially adaptive, but do not have good peer relationships.

A

FALSE. School age children also have better peer relationships.

52
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The social regulator during the school-age period

A

Shame

53
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Age at which cortical remodeling (increase in cortical thickness and accelerated changes in pyramidal cell shape and size occurs.

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7 years old.

54
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Region of the brain with the most protracted course of development during the school age years.

A

Pre-Frontal Cortex

55
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Region of the brain that enables school age children to inhibit or suppress repetitive thoughts and behaviors associated with OCD.

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Caudate Nucleus

56
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T/F: In terms of sociocultural development, school age children concepts of jokes are appreciated in a new way; knock-knock jokes are replaced with more specific punch lines.

A

TRUE

57
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Categories of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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Pre-Conventional, Conventional, and Post-Conventional

58
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Stages of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience
Stage 2: Instrumental/relativist orientation
Stage 3: Good Girl and Naive Boy
Stage 4: Law and Order
Stage 5: Social Contract; Legalistic
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principles
59
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Risk Factors during School Age

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Prepubertal depression; psychiatric problems; early onset to worse prognosis; ADHD; anxiety; separation problems; conduct disorder; Social influences

60
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What is Conrad’s Favorite Animated Disney Movie?

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Beauty and the Beast

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