Week 6 Flashcards
By age 12 how much have females attained of their adult height
93%
By age 12 how much have males attained of their adult height
84%
Which gender is ahead in terms of growth
Females
What are sex differences in skeletal and muscular maturation
Females are better coordinated but slower and somewhat weaker than males
How does the brain develop at this age
Further myelinization in the frontal lobes (logic and planning) and reticular formation (selective attention becomes possible)
What happens to health promotion at this age
Get’s lost at this age
What are some health promotion aspects at this age
Immunization HPV and Hep B if you missed it at infancy
Injury( injury related mortality increases with age and is higher for males than females)
Motor vehicle more than 1/2 of fatal injuries are due to motor vehicle crashes ( next most common is drowning)
How many canadians between the age of 5-11 have unhealthy body weights
1/4
How much are females and males considered to be overweight at 5-11
14% males
19% females
How much of males and females are considerd to be obese at 5-11
8% males
9% females
What are some factors that result in obesity
Genetic predisposition
Epigenetic modifications set early in life
Enviornment
Lower ses is a higher risk
Why is weight loss risky in this group
Requries specalized diets developed by nutritional experts and increased exercise (they are grwoing if you decrease caloric intake it can be bad
What are obesity risk factors
Overweight parents
Larger size for gestation age at birth
Early onset of being overweight (age of 5 and under)
What is the correlation between food insecurity and obesity
Obesity isnt an excess issue
If women are more likely to be food insecure and overweight goes down into families
Stronger for women
Higher # of food insecure children
Canada doesnt have food programs at our school
Children can’t learn mazo
How many people in the 10 provinces lived in a food insecure household and how many children
18.4% and 1.8 million children
What are some new cognitive skills that have developed at this age
Horizontal decalage (apply new cognitive skills to all kinds of problems learn something apply it to different things)
Emergence of problems solving rules from experince and trial and error ( not necessarily age linked)
Vertical declarge ( same skill to different contexts)
What is the relationship between horizontal decalage and conservation
Conservation applies to just matter ( matter can change in apperance without changing in quality) whereas horizontal decalage is broader and can apply to any cognitive function
What is automaticity at this age
Ability to recall information from long-term memory without using short term memory capacity
Riding a bike
Shoelaces
Orginzation memory
What is expertise
More knowledge an individual has about a topic the more efficient thier information processing system will work advanced skills in one area does not improve general levels of memory or reasoning
What is elaboration in information processing
Finding shared meaning or a common referent for two or more things that need to be remebered
What is mnemonic
A devise to assist memory (every good boy deserves fudge)
What is systematic searching
Scanning ones memory for the whole domain in which a peice of information might be found
How many words do kids learn per year at this tage
5000-10000
When do kids start to realize there is structure to words
8 to 9 figuring out relationships between whole categories of words such as between adjectives and adverbs or between adjectives and nouns
What is the balanced approach to literacy
Reading instruction that combines explicit phonics (sound letters make) instruction with other strategies for helping children acquire literacy
Why is it hard to idenitfy poor readers
Kids will start to memorize and strategies teachers assume they are good readers some are really struggling to read
What are the 3 components to emotional intelligence
Awareness of our own emotions; ability to express our emotions appropriately, capacity to channel our emotions into the pursuit of worthwhile goals
Does emotional intelgience need to be taught
YES