School Age/adolescent Growth And Development Flashcards
Freud called the school aged period what?
The latency stage
School age physiological beginning:
Loss of first deciduous teeth
Early childhood is:
5-7 years
Middle childhood is:
8-10 years
Late childhood is:
11-12 years
Physiological ending of the school aged period?
Acquisition of last permanent teeth
How fast should school aged children grow?
2.5 inches per year
How much should school aged children gain?
5-7 pounds per year
When does head circumference reach adult size?
Age 12
Cerebral cortex (intelligence) not complete until?
Early adulthood
What part of the brain develops last?
Frontal lobe- decision making/ problem solving
Improved hand and eye coordination occurs in?
Late childhood
Language development is closely related to?
Cognitive development
What stage in psychosocial development are school aged children in according to Erickson?
Industry vs inferiority
What happens in industry vs inferiority stage?
Eager to develop skills and participate in meaningful work.
Acquire sense of personal and interpersonal competence.
Develop increasing sense of independence.
Motivated by peer approval.
Relationships centered on same sex peers
Feel some inferiority regarding skills they cannot master.
What cognitive development stage are school aged children in according to Piaget?
Concrete operations stage
What happens in the concrete operations stage?
Use thought processes to experience events and actions.
Understand relationships between things and ideas.
Are able to make judgements based on reason.
In early childhood children transition from ____ to ____ in Piagets cognitive development stages.
Preoperational thinking to early concrete operational thinking.
This is a thought process with the ability to focus on more than one aspect of a situation.
Decentration
This is a thought process with recognition that some aspects of objects remain the same despite changes in appearance?
Conservation
This is a thought process with the ability to sequence in order (smaller to largest)?
Seriation
This is a thought process with the ability to group objects based on common characteristics?
Classification
This is a thought process with the ability to mentally reserve an action?
Reversibility
During this stage, egocentricity decreases, magical thinking fades, empathy develops, and they are working towards self-efficacy, competence, and industry.
Concrete stage
