Chapter 9 Flashcards
Obesity
Defined as body weight that is more than 20 percent above the average for a person is a given age and height
Asthma
Chronic condition characterized by periodic attacks of wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath
Gross motor skills
Ride a bike, ice skate, swim, and skip rope
Fine motor skills
Typing a computer keyboard, writing in cursive with pen and pencil, drawing detailed pics
Visual impairment
A difficulty in seeing that may include blinded or partial sightedness
Auditory impairment
A special need that involves the loss of heading or some aspect of hearing
ADHD
Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Signs of ADHD
Fidgeting, squirming, difficulty in waiting or remaining seated, inability to watch an entire tv program
What age does ADHD appear?
Before age 7
ADHD treatment
Ritalin and Dexadrine
ADHD medication side affect
Irritability, reduced appetite, and depression
Concete operational stage
Occurs between 7 and 12 years of age
Decentering
The ability to take multiple aspects of situation into account
Memory
The process by which info is intitially encoded, stored, and retrieved
Metamemory
An understanding about the processes that underlie memory, which emerges and improves during middle childhood
Vygotsky’s approach
Children in the school years should have the opportunity to experiment and participate actively with their colleagues in their educational experiences
Metalinguistic awareness
An understanding of ones own use of language
Those who are ______ have better cognitive flexibility
Bi-lingual
Intelligence
The capacity of understand the world, think with rationality, use resources effectively when faced with challeges
Gilligan’s Three Stages
Stage1: Orientation toward individual survival
Stage2: goodness as self-sacrifice
Stage3: morality of nonviolence
Social competence
The collection of social skills that permits individuals to perform successfully in social settings
Dominance hierarchy
Rankings that represent the relative social power of those in a group
Coregulation
A period in which parents and children jointly control children’s behavior
Attributions
Peoples explanations for the reasons behind their behavior
Emotional intelligence
The set of skills that underlies the accurate assessment, evaluation, expression, and regulation of emotions
Formal operational stage
The stage of which people develop the ability to think abstractly
Info processing perspective
The model that seeks to identity the way the individuals take in, use, and store info
Metacognition
The knowledge that people have about their own thinking processes and their ability to monitor their cognition
Identity-versus-identity-confusion stage
The period during which teenagers seek to determine what is unique and distinctive about themselves
Stress
The physical and emotional response to events that threaten or challenge get us
Primary Appraisal
The assessment of an event up determine whether its implications are positive, negative, or neutral
