Lecture 3 - Latency/School Age Flashcards
What is latency/school age? Generally, what happens during this time?
Ages 7-11.
Child is learning and performing things with peers.
First time receiving feedback from adults other than parents (feeling the weight of society’s demands).
Why did freud call this stage (7-11 years) latency? Describe this stage in terms of freud’s perspective?
Tremendous cognitive and social growth forces drives and sexual urges to back burner (‘latent”)
Time of solidification of gender identity (supposedly).
Ego is for improved logic and superego for moral development.
According to Erik Erikson, what problem and crisis is are school age children faced with?
Industry vs. Inferiority
Crisis: can the child rise to the challenge of competition and conform to the expectations of the culture outside of the home?
During industry vs. Inferiority, what is the answer to Erikson’s constant question of “who am i?”?
“I am what I learn”
Describe the stage of industry vs. inferiority.
Sucessful experiences lead to a feeling of industry (competence). Failure leads to feelings of inadequacy.
Too much success can lear to an identity defined by meeting the expectations of others.
According to Piaget, what stage of cognitive development are school aged children in?
Concrete operations:
- child can think deeper about an object rather than just about appearance.
- child can operate on data by applying rules of logic
- logic still tied to concrete events and not abstract situations
What are specific tasks of the concrete operational stage described by piaget?
Conservation: more than one way to look at or measure an object
Seriation: arrange/categorize objects
Reversibility: reversing operation results in the same thing as you began with
Class inclusion: a whole is made up of parts
How do school aged children begin to use logic and problem solving?
They begin to understand rules of login (if this, then that).
Can sort objects by categorizing.
Can order things in sequence and understanding that number has meaning.
Describe the short term memory of a school aged child?
6 year olds can hold 2 bits of info, gradually increasing through age 12.
Describe the long-term memory of school aged children?
At 5, they will start using the strategy of rehearsal.
Around 12, they can start using the strategy of elaborating (relating new image to something they know).
IQ is a good predictor of what? IQ scores are unstable before what age?
Academic and vocational achievement.
Unstable before age 7 due to exponential neuronal growth.
What is the most common learning disability?
Reading.
Followed by math and written expression.
What is a learning disability?
An information processing problem rather than an ability problem..
Usually occurs in context of an averange IQ.
Can be reading, writing, or math
How would you define a “very bright” or “gifted” child?
IQ of 130 or above plus some specific aptitude such as math or science.
Sometimes have special social and emotional needs.
Describe the language development of school aged children (7-11)?
Vocab rapidly grows and eventually reaches 30,000 words.
Conversation becomes more purposeful and they can comprehend subtleties.
