Latency

Question 1

Latency

Answer 1

Instincts that have been forming core of beliefs takes back seat~ sexual urges are repressed

Question 2

What is our Reality Tester during Latency?

Answer 2

Ego

Question 3

Freuds assessment of Latency

Answer 3

Cognitive and social growth will force instinctual and sexual urges to back burner

Question 4

Erikson’s assessment of Latency

Answer 4

child can handle competition and conform to cultural expectations

Question 5

What is Erikson’s assesment of Latency based on?

Answer 5

Genetically designed plan

Question 6

What is Erikson’s Stage 4 during Latency

Answer 6

Industry vs Inferiority

Question 7

What does successful experience of Erikson’s stage during Latency lead to?

Answer 7

Sense of industry; competence and mastery

Question 8

What does failure of Erikson’s stage 4 during Latency lead to?

Answer 8

Feeling inadequate or inferior

Question 9

What is Erikson’s central question during all stages?

Answer 9

Who am I?

Question 10

Erikson’s central question during Latency

Answer 10

Will you be one of the masses or an anonymous ‘worker’ rather than leader or innovator

Question 11

What does too much success during Latency lead to according to Erikson

Answer 11

Identify self ONLY by meeting expectations of OTHERS–lack self direction

Question 12

What level or cognitive devo are children in during Latency according to Piaget?

Answer 12

Concrete Operations= thinking tied to concrete events and not hypothetical or abstract thinking

Question 13

What level of Operation are you at when child thinks deeper about an object and not just based on appearance?

Answer 13

Concrete Operations

Question 14

What is it when a child needs to change what is previously learned?

Answer 14

Accomidation

Question 15

Assimilation

Answer 15

during latency; assmilation is grouping according to schemes

Question 16

Piaget: what determines cognitive growth?

Answer 16

Crisis and encounters

Question 17

How do children devo intellectual growth during latency?

Answer 17

Organization: when incoming information doesn’t fit into existing scheme, child needs to be able to adapt and adjust intellect

Question 18

What is the concept of being able to see that there is more then one way to measure an object?

Answer 18

Conservation

Question 19

What is the concept of being able to categorize objects?

Answer 19

Seriation

Question 20

What are two specific tasks of concrete operations?

Answer 20

Conservation and Seriation

Question 21

What are the 4 methods of logic and problem solving during Latency?

Answer 21

1. Logic vs intuition (some toys are cars, some are trucks and some are blue vs yellow
2. Understanding rules of logic (if this then that)
3. Sorts objects by categories and sub-categories
4. Ordering in sequence and understand number has meaning

Question 22

How many bits of information does a 6-12 year old have in short term memory?

Answer 22

2 bits: 2 part commands and doable

Question 23

What strategy of long term memory does a 5 yr old use?

Answer 23

Rehersal

Question 24

What strategy of long term memory does a 12 yr old use?

Answer 24

Elaborating

Question 25

If you have failure of memory on a test what is the issue?

Answer 25

Failure of RETRIEVAL; not of storage

use more key words for attachment

Question 26

What is they key problem in children w/ ADHD?

Answer 26

Memory is key issue: children have trouble w/ 2 or 3 bit command

Question 27

Are IQ scores stable or unstable before age 7 and good to use as measure of ‘normal’

Answer 27

unstable; but later correlates w/ academic achievement

Question 28

Key problem with Learning Disability

Answer 28

Information processing problem, not an ability problem

Question 29

The ability to monitor own progress

Answer 29

Self regulation~ not well developed during latency

Question 30

Language will more than ________ during elementary school years

Answer 30

Double

Question 31

Vocab reaches about _______words during latency

Answer 31

30,000 words

Question 32

What benefits come out of conversation during latency?

Answer 32

becomes more purposeful and can comprehend subtulties, better at phrasing things and getting what they want, can take hints

Question 33

Socially children during latency prefer opp or same sex friends and parent?

Answer 33

Same sex

Question 34

How does forming friendship at this age differ than in the past?

Answer 34

based on simular interests and not just proximity and also focused on building trusting relationships

Question 35

What type of play occurs during latency?

Answer 35

Cooperative play, move past parallel play

Question 36

Peer influence vs parental influence during latency

Answer 36

peer influence increases, parental influence not increasing

Question 37

Empathy and perspective taking are increased/decreased during latency

Answer 37

increased–child can be more objective

Question 38

Peer acceptance is related to what?

Answer 38

Mood: closely linked to child happiness—problems associated w/ acceptance

Question 39

What qualities are associated w/ peer acceptance?

Answer 39

friendly/sociable/intelligent/creative/attractive

Question 40

What qualities are associated w/ peer rejection?

Answer 40

Hostile, aggressive, withdrawn, acting uninterested (shy), slow learners, hyperactivity, deviant behavior or rule breaking

Question 41

Why do children avoid school during latency?

Answer 41

• seperation anxiety~ but also check out stressors
• overwhelmed w/ worklad
• bullying
• theres often and adversive event at school such as fear of being called in in class

Question 42

What age does school avoidance start to increase?

Answer 42

11 to 13

Question 43

Key features of motor functioning in latency

Answer 43

• engage in more complex motor tasks
• longer sequence of discreet skills can be devod w/ practice
• involved in team sports