Week 5 Flashcards
Are physical changes in 6-8 year olds impressive
They are more difficult to observe directly the physical changes in middle childhoood are just as impressive
How much do 6-8 year olds grow
5cm to 8cm in height and 2.75kg each year
What is some other motor development in early childhood
Large muscle coordination continues to improve children show increase in strength and speed and hand-eye coordination also gets better
What fine motor skill improve
Writting possible as well as drawing cutting and many other skills ( using a pair of scissors)
What may link the improvement in fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination
Steady increase in myelinization of neural axons across the cebral cortex with sensory and motor areas affected first
What are some things that increase with the right hemisphere lateralization
Spatial perception
L/R
Relative right-left orientation improves (more dominant)
Spatial cognition- males score better than females on spatial orientation (boys early play preferences may enhance this ability)
Visual experience
How many overweight children become overweight adults
1/2
What are overweight and obese children more predisposed to
Developing type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease later in life
What is the major flaw with BMI
Doesn’t take in account athletes they do not apply to everybody
Doesn’t discriminate between muscle and fat
Why do we still use BMI
Easy and cheap
For surgery
Acurate 80% of the time
How many children fail to meet the recommended daily duration of PA
1/4
How many exceed the sedentary behaviour limit
37%
How much screen time or other passive non school related activites should kids this age get
no more than 2 hours
What happend to PA during covid
You had to physical education on your own time there was a decrease in PA females more than male
Also more screen time males more than females
How many grade difference did covid create
3 full grades
Which province had most days remote schooling
Ontario
What were some discourse around COVID and families
We are all in this together
Social distancing/Physical distancing
Resilience
What are the 7 Cs of resilience
Compentence
Confidence
Coping
Control
Character
Connection
Contribution
What is the problem with applying this conceptualization of resilience to school aged children
Empathy is hard
Not prioritizing these things
In/out of their control
What are they actually capable of doing as a child
To survive you still need outside things
What were some of the findings of the solar study
Resilience on a continuum
Surviving: Fighting back
Persevering: You keep trying
Recovering: keep trying and then we do it
Thriving: working hard
What was it that kids say about the solar study
All the kids wanted was to have a friend with the interview
What stage are they at in piaget
Concrete operational stage
What is decentration
thinking that takes multiple variables into account
What is reversibility
Understand that both physical actions and mental operations can be reversed
What is increased inductive or deductive logic
Inductive allows the child to go from specific experience to a general principle but deductive logic is still not strong
What is an example of decentration
Perspective is everything different people see different things on a picture
What is reversibility
Things can change they can be multiple things or reverse back and forth
What are information processing skills
Memory function continues to improve and processing efficiency increases steadily with age (ability to make efficient use of short-term memory capacity)
What are executive processes
advancement in information processing skills that involves devising and carrying out strategies for remembering and solving problems based on knowing how the mind works
Does executive process improve
Yes with the use of common information processing strategies knowing how their mind works
What is reherasal
Mental or vocal repetition