Middle Childhood Flashcards
middle childhood years
5-12 years old
physical growth in middle childhood
- slow and steady
- become stronger
- between 6 and 12yrs lose baby teeth
sensory development
- hearing improves and fewer inner ear infections
- rates of near-sightedness rise
- require 9-10 hours of sleep avg.
gross motor development
- increased coordination
- increased balance, speed and agility
- active rather than passive
fine motor skills
- go from crude 2D figures to 3D depth
- by 6yrs can write alphabet, name, numbers
- letters become smaller and neater
- fine motor skills reach adult maturity by end of middle childhood
physical activity
recommended 60mins everyday
obesity causes (3)
- changes in diet
- less physical activity
- genetics
middle childhood ___ and ___ time of life
safest and healthiest
asthma
chronic illness of lungs
- wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath
piaget in middle childhood
concrete operations stage 7-11yrs
- can use mental operations but only in concrete, immediate experience
- more abstract thinking
- grasp concepts like time and speed
concrete operational thinking (5)
- conservation
- knows something can be same quantity but look different
- classification
- can now classify things when mental operations are needed
- decentering
- can focus on width and length of two triangles in order to compare their areas
- reversibility
- knows that certain operations can be done in reverse
- seriation
- can arrange things in a logical order
information processing
- speed increases
- selective attention - able to focus on relevant info and disregard irrelevant info
ADHD
attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
3 subtypes
- predominantly inattentive
- predominantly hyperactive-impulsive
- combined
aroreretini
Māori interpretation of ADHD
- attention goes to many things
- fantail as metaphor
mnemonics (3)
- rehearsal
- repeating information
- organisation
- placing into categories
- elaboration
- connecting information
metamemory
children understand how memory works
- recency (easier to remember something recent)
- familiarity (easier to remember familiar things)
intelligence
The capacity to acquire knowledge/understand the world, reason/think rationally, and use resources effectively to solve problems
flynn effect
IQ scores rose across developed countries in 20th century
- due to contextual environment
types of intelligences (9)
- Spatial
- Naturalist
- Musical
- Logical-mathematical
- Existential
- Interpersonal
- Bodily-kinesthetic
- Linguistic
- Intrapersonal
Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (3)
- analytical (componential)
- creative (experiential)
- practical (contextual)
people have different profiles on each, some may be stronger than others
language development
age 6: know about 10,000 words
age 10-11: know about 40,000 words
vocab
start to understand words can take different forms and have different meaning
- e.g. calculate, calculating, calculated, calculation, miscalculate
grammar
more sophisticated, more likely to use conditional sentences