Middle Childhood

Question 1

Health

Answer 1

healthiest time in the life span
slim down and gain muscle strength
growth spurts (in puberty)
increased lung capacity

Question 2

Coordination

Answer 2

Improvement in fine motor motor skills
Improvement in gross motor skills
Independence in self care

Question 3

Organized Sports

Answer 3

improvement in physical health
emotional development grows
academic performance improves
Can get to competitive and athletics take take president over things
Gender, poverty and disability can limit a person

Question 4

Obesity

Answer 4

Decreased participation in PE bc school budget does not have enough money
Video games about sports–some school age children consider it sport

Question 5

childhood obesity

Answer 5

linked to impaired brain function
physical and social ramifications

Question 6

Oblivobesity

Answer 6

Established by Katz in 2015
lack of recognition from parents that children are overweight or obese

Question 7

How to combat oblivobesity

Answer 7

promote exercise efforts
avoid diet culture
warm supportive environment
do not shame/ guild trip the child
practiced delayed gratification

Question 8

brain development

Answer 8

prefrontal cortex becomes more developed
- logic, planning, memory, emotional control, and attention span improve

Question 9

brain development-myelination

Answer 9

increases information processing speed and the childs reaction time

Question 10

brain development-automatization

Answer 10

faster physical and cognitive abilities

Question 11

brain function-hippocampus

Answer 11

improved memory function

Question 12

concreate operational thought

Answer 12

use log to solve problems tied to their own direct experience
more organized when dealing with concreate information

Question 13

concreate operational thought- reversibility

Answer 13

things can be returned to their original state
ex: water can be frozen then thawed back to water

Question 14

concreate operational thought-classification

Answer 14

arrange objects into a variety of categories
-sub categories
-opposite of centration

Question 15

concreate operational thought-knowledge base

Answer 15

more concept categories to retrieve information from
-makes learning easier
-fast mapping

Question 16

concreate operational thought-critical thinking

Answer 16

detailed explanation
-gather evaluate and select information
-considering many possible solutions to make an informed decisions

Question 17

metagoconition

Answer 17

knowledge we have about our own thinking
use this awareness to regulate our own cognitive processes

Question 18

Erikson’s 4th theory

Answer 18

industry vs. inferiority
playing, planning and achieving with friends
middle childhood is a very active and busy time together with peers
gain a sense of how we measure up compared to peers

Question 19

Self esteem

Answer 19

if industry is successful we have a sense of confidence which results in high self esteem
if inferiority is successful we have a sense of self doubt which results in low self esteem

Question 20

effortful control

Answer 20

ability to regulate emotions and actions through conscious effort
facilitates and supports industry

Question 21

Kohlberg’s theory

Answer 21

how our moral reasoning changes as we get older
-sequence (piaget)
-brain maturation and life experience