G&D: Middle Childhood (6-11y/o)

Question 1

Body Proportion

Answer 1

Growth primarily in the limbs

COG towards the umbilicus = incr ability to maintain balance while running

Question 2

Motor Characteristics

Answer 2

Able to do more than one task at a time
Calibrate movements better:
- flexibility, balance, agility, force

Question 3

Sensory Characteristics

Answer 3

Visual Acuity: ability to focus to detain
- Low vision: affects ability to learn if not
accommodated
Body Schema: sense of body space
Spatial Awareness: understanding of near & far space (tossing a ball into a basket)
Cognitive Maps: remembering sensory experiences = knowing surroundings
Temporal Organization: orderly sequence of tasks = start > finish

Question 4

Temporal Awareness

Answer 4

Time in relation to planning, sequencing, and alternating movements (jump rope)
Coincidence-anticipation (CA) - timing ability with a moving object (kick a moving soccer ball)

Question 5

Concrete Operational Thought

Answer 5

Reversability: set tasks start<>finish
Seriation: order items quantitatively (length/wt)

Question 6

Emotional Development

Answer 6

Problem-centered coping: identify the problem to solve (through friends)
Emotion-centered coping: alter view on the given unchangeable problem through internal emotions

Question 7

Behavioral Tasks

Answer 7

Rapport talk: connecting/negotiating relationships (boys)

Report talk: info/directive communication (girls)

Question 8

Mental Fxn

Answer 8

Outside sources of stress increase
Learned helplessness: child attributes their failures, not success, to ability
- believe in luck not ability
- believe ability is fixed and can’t be improved

Question 9

(2) Types of Play

Answer 9

Objective play: manipulation of objects
- building blocks, art materials
- most popular form for develop/therapy
Virtual play: leisure influences
- TV, video games
- decrease social interaction/attention

Question 10

Stages of Perspective Taking

Answer 10

Level 0 [3-6y/o] (undifferentiated): recognize that self & others can have diff thoughts/feelings, confuse them
Level 1 [4-9y/o] (Social-Informational): understand diff perspectives come from having diff access to info (religion views)
Level 2 [7-12y/o] (Self-Reflective): empathy
Level 3 [10-15y/o] (3rd-party): understand outside perspective
Level 4 [14-adult] (Societal Perspective): understand 3rd party perspective can derive from a larger societal influence