Middle Childhood Flashcards
What period does it belong to?
Growth in height and weight becomes slower.
Middle Childhood
Correct the statement, and what period does it belong to?
Girls decrease in height, and boys are more in weight.
Girls increase in height, and boys are more in weight
Middle Childhood
What age do there have a minimal change during the puberty stage?
10-12 years old
What period do the pubertal changes start?
Middle Childhood
T or F
Girls experience menstrual menarche (first menstrual period), and boys notice voice changes in Adolescence.
F- Middle Childhood
At what age does Adam’s apple become more prominent?
14 years old
T or F
During Middle Childhood, children experience fewer stomachaches and can go longer in between meals.
T
During middle childhood, what happens to the children’s heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure?
Heart rate and respiratory decreases while blood pressure increases
Yes or No
Does the organization of CNS during middle childhood is like an adult?
Yes but the frontal lobe is still maturing
What happens to the body proportions during middle childhood?
More increasing in leg length, decreasing head size, waist is relative to the height.
T or F
The Center of gravity lowers as they grow
taller during Adolescence
F- during middle childhood
Middle childhood is often idealized as _______.
Period of rugged good health.
2 critical areas of health promotion in this group during middle childhood are:
Nutrition and Injury Prevention
During middle childhood, if nutrition is not monitored, some children may experience malnourishment, resulting in _____.
Obesity
What is the average intake of kcal/day?
2000 kcal/day
Obesity comes from:
Malnourishment
It remains the leading cause of death between 1-19 years old
Injuries
2 types of injury
Bicycle accidents
Sports injuries
Influences in pre-schoolers
Capricious Influences
School-aged children
Logical internal organization
Consists of mental operation to allow children to do mentally what had to be experienced before that is now actions can be played in their mind and giving them flexibility in solving problems
Concrete operational thinking
Characterized by decreasing centration, reversibility principle of mental sequence, set identity, conservation of physical properties, classification skills and an inability to think abstractly.
Concrete thoughts
It refers to children’s ability to consider two or more pieces of information at one time when solving a problem.
Decreasing Centration
Pouring juice in 2 different size glasses
Decreasing Centration
Concrete thinkers can think through a sequence of actions in their minds and reverse it back to where they started
Reversibility of a sequence
5-2=3, 3+2=5
Roll a ball of clay into a snake and then ball it up again.
Reversibility of a Sequence
A set remains the same even if physical properties are rearranged, and concrete thinkers are not easily fooled by appearance anymore.
Set Identity
10 M&Ms are still 10 even if arranged in 1 or 2 rows
Set identity
1 piece of bread is still 1 piece even if folded or cut up
Set identity
Children can understand that some properties of an object remain the same even if they have acted on that object to alter its appearance
Conservation of Physical Properties
Middle children understand that a ton of feathers is the same as a ton of bricks
Conservation of Weight