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DEV CHAPTER 5 | MIDDLE AND LATE CHILDHOOD Flashcards

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the child does not spontaneously use a memory strategy and must be prompted to do so

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PRODUCTION DEFICIENCY

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the construct that the different abilities and skills measured on intelligence tests have in common

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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE FACTOR (G)

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The ability to think and reason about objects in three dimensions

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Spatial

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Middle childhood seems to be a great time to introduce children to ____,

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SPORTS

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the ability to demonstrate common sense and street-smarts.

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PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE

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a form of competition with the medium being video games.

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ESPORTS

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problems with pitch, loudness, and quality of the voice

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VOICE DISORDERS

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as children’s experiences and vocabularies grow, they build schemata and are able to organize objects in many different ways.

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CLASSIFICATION

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refers to children using an appropriate strategy, but it fails to

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UTILIZATION DEFICIENCY

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BRAIN GROWTH

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Two major brain growth spurts occur during middle/late childhood (6-8) significant improvements in fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination are noted.

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The ability to recognize, identify, and understand animals, plants, and other living things

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Naturalistic

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develop a measure that would identify children who would not be successful with the regular school curriculum.

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french psychologist Alfred Binet (1857–1914), Théodore Simon (1872–1961), French government

(General (g) versus Specific (s) Intelligences (1904-1905))

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people may display more or less analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence

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TRIARCHIC THEORY OF INTELLIGENCE (Robert Sternberg)

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consistent over time

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RELIABLE

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lack of recognition from parents that children are overweight or obese.

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OBLIVOBESITY

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GRAMMAR AND FLEXIBILITY

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Older children are also able to learn new rules of grammar with more flexibility.

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refers to the inability to correctly produce speech sounds (phonemes) because of imprecise placement, timing, pressure, speed, or flow of movement of the lips, tongue, or throat

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ARTICULATION DISORDER

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measure of general intelligence made up of a wide variety of tasks, including vocabulary, memory for pictures, naming of familiar objects, repeating sentences, and following commands..

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STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE TEST

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the most widely used intelligence test for adults

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WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE (WAIS)

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the ability to generate many different ideas or solutions to a single problem

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DIVERGENT THINKING

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refers to the knowledge we have about our own thinking and our ability to use this awareness to regulate our own cognitive processes

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METACOGNITION

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people who score low on intelligence tests overall, but who nevertheless may have exceptional skills in a given domain

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AUTISTIC SAVANTS

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knowledge in particular areas that makes learning new information easier.

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KNOWLEDGE BASE

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The current measurement for determining excess weight which expresses the relationship of height to weight.

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BODY MASS INDEX (BMI)

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OVERALL PHYSICAL GROWTH

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Rates of growth generally slow during these years. Typically, a child will gain about 5-7 pounds a year and grow about 2-3 inches per year

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a measure of intelligence that is adjusted for age

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INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ)

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child learns that some things that have been changed can be returned to their original state

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REVERSIBILITY

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Those in middle and late childhood are also able to think of objects in less literal ways.

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NEW UNDERSTANDING

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which is the age at which a person is performing intellectually

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MENTAL AGE

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affect the rate of speech. Speech may be labored and slow, or too fast for listeners to follow. The most common fluency disorder is stuttering.

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FLUENCY DISORDERS

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a measure of specific skills in narrow domains.

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SPECIFIC INTELLIGENCE “S”

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assessed based on cognitive capacity (IQ) and adaptive functioning.

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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (OR INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER)

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a detailed examination of beliefs, courses of action, and evidence, involves teaching children how to think.

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CRITICAL THINKING

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The ability to understand and interact effectively with others

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Interpersonal

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The ability to speak and write well

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Linguistic

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For many children, _______________ is a key component in introducing children to sports

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

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one of the reasons that children can classify objects in so many ways

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VOCABULARY

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a chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome.

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DOWN SYNDROME,

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The ability to have insight into the self

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Intrapersonal

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no longer focus on only one dimension of any object (such as the height of the glass) and instead consider the changes in other dimensions too (such as the width of the glass)

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DECENTRATION:

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The ability to perform and enjoy music

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Musical

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sounds, syllables, or words are repeated or last longer than normal.

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STUTTERING

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involves giving it to a large number of people at different ages and computing the average score on the test at each age level

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STANDARDIZATION

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the ability to inhibit irrelevant information improves, a sharp improvement in selective attention (6-adolescence)

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ATTENTION

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The ability to move the body in sports, dance, or other physical activities

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Kinesthetic (body)

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decreased participation in school physical education and youth sports is just one of many factors that has led to an increase in children being overweight or obese

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CHILDHOOD OBESITY

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IDENTITY

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objects have qualities that do not change even if the object is altered in some way.

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the pattern of scores usually observed in a variable that clusters around its average.

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NORMAL DISTRIBUTION (OR BELL CURVE)

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the capacity of working memory expands during middle and late childhood, and research has suggested that both an increase in processing speed and the ability to inhibit irrelevant information from entering memory are contributing to the greater efficiency of working memory during this age

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WORKING MEMORY

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occurs when a child does not grasp the strategy being taught, and thus, does not benefit from its use.

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MEDIATION DEFICIENCY

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The ability to use logic and mathematical skills to solve problems

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Logical-mathematical

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logical process in which multiple premises believed to be true are combined to obtain a specific conclusion.

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INDUCTIVE REASONING

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actually measure intelligence rather than something else

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VALIDITY

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children who are at or above the 95th percentile

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OBESE

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the ability to adapt to new situations and create new ideas

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CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE,

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arranging items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight, in a methodical way is now demonstrated by the concrete operational child

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SERIATION

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refers to children who have an IQ of 130 or higher

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GIFTEDNESS

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refers to the observation that scores on intelligence tests worldwide have increased substantially over the past decades

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FLYNN EFFECT

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involves mastering the use of logic in concrete ways

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PIAGET’S CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE (7-11yrs old)

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children whose BMI is at or above the 85th percentile for their age.

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OVERWEIGHT

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CONVERGENT THINKING

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thinking that is directed toward finding the correct answer to a given problem

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describes a developmental progression in the acquisition and _________. Often lacking in younger children but increase in frequency as children progress through elementary school

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MEMORY STRATEGIES

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changing one quality (in this example, height or water level) can be compensated for by changes in another quality (width).

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CONSERVATION

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academic problem solving and performing calculations,

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ANALYTICAL INTELLIGENCE

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