Week 6 - Middle Childhood

Question 1

What age is middle childhood

Answer 1

6 - 11 years

Question 2

What piaget stage are 6-11 YOs in

Answer 2

Concrete operational

Question 3

What are the cognitive abilites of middle childhood 6-11 YO

Answer 3

Can understand
- identity
- reversibility
- decentration

• classification improves

Question 4

What is the language development for middle childhood 6-11

Answer 4

• more precise phonology
• lexicon expands dramatically 40, 000 words by the end of middle childhood
• syntax and pragmatics improve
• bilingualism

Question 5

How many intelligences are there in gardener’s multiple intelligences

Answer 5

8

Question 6

What are the intelligences in gardener’s multiple intelligences

Answer 6

• interpersonal
• linguistic
• mathematical
• naturalistic
• intrapersonal
• visual
• musical
• Body-kinesthetic

Question 7

Describe psychosocial and relationship development in middle childhood

Answer 7

• peers help development from egocentrism
• influenced by parental choices
• impact of peers increase with age
• parental monitoring becomes less direct as child get older
• childhood peer groups segrgated by: age, gender, race
• friendships provide scaffolding for normative transitions, social competence, gives ego support, emotional security, source of intimacy and affection

Question 8

what is eriksons conflict for middle childhood 6-11/12

Answer 8

industry vs inferiority
competence

Question 9

What should a 11 or 12 YO have

Answer 9

dexterity skills equal to adult level

Question 10

What is the cognitive idea of identity

Answer 10

properties are the same even if their appearance has changed

Question 11

What is the cognitive ability to reversibility

Answer 11

can reverse a scenario mentally

Question 12

What is the cognitive ability of decentration

Answer 12

consider several concepts simultaneously