Chapter 9- The Middle Childhood Years Flashcards
A body weight that is more than 20 percent above the average for a person of a given age and height
Obesity
By what age does the average height for girls is 4 feet 10 inches and the average height for boys is slightly shorter at 4 feet 9 1/2 inches
Age 11
Chronic condition characterized by periodic attacks of wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath
Asthma
A difficulty in seeing that may include blindness or partial sightedness
Visual impairment
A special need that involves the loss of hearing or some aspect of hearing
Auditory impairment
- Persistent difficulty in finishing tasks, following instructions and organizing work
- inability to watch an entire television program
- frequent interruption of others or excessive talking
- a tendency to jump into a task before hearing all the instructions
- difficulty in waiting or remaining seated
- fidgeting,squirming
ADHD
What is important for physical, social, and cognitive development, but overnutrition may lead to obesity o
Adequate nutrition
The period of cognitive development between 7 and 12 years of age, which is characterized by the active, and appropriate, use of logic
Concrete operational stage
The ability to take multiple aspects of situation into account
Decentering
An understanding about the processes that underlie memory, which emerges and improved during middle childhood
Metamemory
Technique to teach reading comprehension strategies
Reciprocal teaching
Characterized by a focus on efforts to meet the challenges presented by parents, peers, school and other complexities of the modern world
Industry-versus-inferiority stage
The desire to evaluate ones own behavior, abilities, expertise, and opinions by comparing them to those of others
Social comparison
In the five year period from 1995 to 2000, the number of children in foster care increased by more than
50%
A period in which parents and children jointly control children’s behavior
Coregulation
The oneset of menus traction and probably the most obvious signal of puberty in girls varies greatly in different parts of the world
Menarche
Provides for impulse control
Prefrontal cortex
The stage at which people develop the ability to think abstractly
Formal operational stage
The model that seeks to identify the way that individuals take in use and store information
Information processes perspective
The knowledge that people have about their own thinking processes and their ability to monitor their cognition
Metacognition
A state of self absorption in which the world is viewed as focused on oneself
Adolescent egocentrism
The view held by some adolescents that what happens to them is unique exceptional and shared by no one else
Personal fables
Independence and a sense of control over ones life
Autonomy
Groups of people with whom one compares oneself
Reference groups
Adolescent delinquents who know and subscribe to the norms of society and who are fairly normal psychologically
Socialized delinquents
Adolescent delinquents who are raised with little discipline or with harsh uncaring parental supervision
Undersocialized delinquents
The assessment of an event to determine whether its implications are postive negative or neutral
Primary appraisal
Medical problems caused by the interaction of psychological emotional and physical difficulties
Psychosomatic disorders
Thinking that acknowledges that adult predicaments must sometimes be solved in relativistic terms
Postformal thought
