Department Questions Flashcards
How much height and how much weight are kids expected to gain each year of their elementary school years?
Each year that a kid is in elementary school, they’re gonna gain 2-3 inches in height and 5 pounds in weight
What are the two things that cause the generations to get taller and heavier?
Environment and Heredity
A kid has drastically improved his footwork, what skill is he showing?
Agility
What is the stage that elementary school kids are in?
Concrete operational
What is the concrete operational stage characterized by?
Logical and flexible thinking
As children get older, their changes in attention become
More adaptable
Children consistently use memory strategies by about what age?
By mid elementary school years
Which reflects the change in self description between the ages of 8-11?
Children emphasize competencies when describing themselves (CECWDT)
What is the term called when children can imagine what other people are thinking?
Perspective taking
What do school age kids begin to take into account when evaluating the morality of a person’s actions?
Intentions and context
By the time you get to a certain age in high school, your parents let you make lots of decisions. What is this called?
Coregulation
What is important in fostering healthy and beneficial sibling relationships?
Parental encouragement of warm sibling ties (PEWST)
Biological changes that lead to changes in size and sexual maturity
Puberty
First outward sign of puberty is what?
Growth spurt
During teen years, adolescents add almost how much height and weight?
10-11 inches in height and 50-70 pounds in weight
What was Piaget’s stage for high school students?
Formal operational
Piaget said that egocentrism that appears in teenagers involves their inability to distinguish what?
The perspectives of self and others (PSO)
What is cognitive self regulation?
Plan out steps for an assignment or task
What type of parent is the most dangerous parent?
Uninvolved parent
According to Erik Erikson, the stage that is prominent in adolescence is
Identity versus role confusion
Maria feels a strong sense of ethnic group membership. What is she displaying?
Ethnic identity
The code of ethical conduct is needed because
Children are vulnerable and they lack power
What are the five sections of the code of ethical conduct?
Children, families, colleagues, community and society (CFCCS)
Which principle is the most important of all of the code of ethical conduct?
When doing experiments with children, don’t harm kids
On average, children in middle childhood learn about how many words a day?
20
Mrs. Willows provides her second graders with opportunities to communicate in many situations. Her students show gains in the communicative style of language. What does this emphasize?
Pragmatics
How do children who are bilingual perform compared to others on tests of cognitive abilities?
They perform better than others
Gains in language development during the teenage years are largely due to what?
Improved capacity for reflective thought and abstraction (ICRTA)
During teenage years, vocabulary growth involves the addition of many
Abstract words
Teenage slang is an example of teenagers
Mastery of language style
Gender intensification refers to
Increased gender stereotyping of attitudes and behavior (IGSAB)
