Chapter 9- The Middle Childhood Years

Question 0

A body weight that is more than 20 percent above the average for a person of a given age and height

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Obesity

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Age 11

Question 2

Chronic condition characterized by periodic attacks of wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath

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Asthma

Question 3

A difficulty in seeing that may include blindness or partial sightedness

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Visual impairment

Question 4

A special need that involves the loss of hearing or some aspect of hearing

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Auditory impairment

Question 5

• 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

Answer 5

ADHD

Question 6

What is important for physical, social, and cognitive development, but overnutrition may lead to obesity o

Answer 6

Adequate nutrition

Question 7

The period of cognitive development between 7 and 12 years of age, which is characterized by the active, and appropriate, use of logic

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Concrete operational stage

Question 8

The ability to take multiple aspects of situation into account

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Decentering

Question 9

An understanding about the processes that underlie memory, which emerges and improved during middle childhood

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Metamemory

Question 10

Technique to teach reading comprehension strategies

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Reciprocal teaching

Question 11

Characterized by a focus on efforts to meet the challenges presented by parents, peers, school and other complexities of the modern world

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Industry-versus-inferiority stage

Question 12

The desire to evaluate ones own behavior, abilities, expertise, and opinions by comparing them to those of others

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Social comparison

Question 13

In the five year period from 1995 to 2000, the number of children in foster care increased by more than

Answer 13

50%

Question 14

A period in which parents and children jointly control children’s behavior

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Coregulation

Question 15

The oneset of menus traction and probably the most obvious signal of puberty in girls varies greatly in different parts of the world

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Menarche

Question 16

Provides for impulse control

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Prefrontal cortex

Question 17

The stage at which people develop the ability to think abstractly

Answer 17

Formal operational stage

Question 18

The model that seeks to identify the way that individuals take in use and store information

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Information processes perspective

Question 19

The knowledge that people have about their own thinking processes and their ability to monitor their cognition

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Metacognition

Question 20

A state of self absorption in which the world is viewed as focused on oneself

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Adolescent egocentrism

Question 21

The view held by some adolescents that what happens to them is unique exceptional and shared by no one else

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Personal fables

Question 22

Independence and a sense of control over ones life

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Autonomy

Question 23

Groups of people with whom one compares oneself

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Reference groups

Question 24

Adolescent delinquents who know and subscribe to the norms of society and who are fairly normal psychologically

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Socialized delinquents

Question 25

Adolescent delinquents who are raised with little discipline or with harsh uncaring parental supervision

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Undersocialized delinquents

Question 26

The assessment of an event to determine whether its implications are postive negative or neutral

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Primary appraisal

Question 27

Medical problems caused by the interaction of psychological emotional and physical difficulties

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Psychosomatic disorders

Question 28

Thinking that acknowledges that adult predicaments must sometimes be solved in relativistic terms

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Postformal thought