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School Years CH11
Biosocial Development
Question | Answer |
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what age do children no longer depend on their families to dress, feed, bath, ect. | By age 6 or 7 self care is a routine and attendance at school is mandated |
the period between early childhood and early adolescence aproximately ages 7 to 11 | middle childhood |
When do genetic and enviormental factors like fatal diseases and accidents mostly occur at what age | Before age 7 |
What do childern master due to stronger muscles and and slower growth | School age children can master almost any motor skill that doesn't require adult size |
what allows children run faster and exercise longer without breathing more heavily | lung capacity expands |
What is considered more over weight | for an adult having a BMI of 25 to 29 and a child having a BMI above the 85th percentile |
what is considered obesity | fo an adult having a BMI of 30 or more and a child being above the 95th percentile |
What benefits do children get out of physical activity | Better overall health, less obesity, appreciation of cooperation and fair play, improved promblem solving abilities, respect for teammates and opponents from many ethnicities and nationalities |
What hazards do children face with physical activities | loss of self-esteem,injuries,reinforcement of prejudices,increases in stress, and tim and effort taken away from learning academic skills |
the rate of obesity has doubled in the U.S. due to | Desire for fast foods |
Neighborhood games allows children to | play flexible, improvise to meet their needs; and play areas, rules, boundries, time are adapted to the children's availablity |
Excercise in school allows | gym teachers to teach developemntaly games and exercises for children |
due to academic pressure to increase/decrease,while physical education and recess have declined/inclined | increase/declined |
what offers opprotunities for children to play | private and nonprofit and organizations |
what influences organized sports | culture and family |
children that have speacial needs,and some get worse during the school years have chronic illnesses. about what percentage of all children have speacial needs | 13% |
what can limit active play and impede regular school attendance | Any chronic condition |
a chronic disease of the respiratory system in which in flamation narrows the airway from lung to the nose and mouth,causing difficulty in breathing | Asthma |
Signs and symptoms of Asthma | include wheezing, shortness of breath,chest tightness, and coughing |
how many levels of prevention are there for asthma? and what are the levels called | three/ primary,secondary,tertiary |
primary level of prevention of Asthma | better ventilation of schools and homes,decreased pollution, eradication of cockroaches,construction of many play areas |
secondary level of prevention of Asthma | breast-feeding, ridding the house of ;dust; pets;smoke;and other allergens,regular check ups |
tretiary level of prevention of Asthma | use of injections and inhalers, hypoallergenic materials |
increase in myelination results in a massively interconnected brain by what age | by age 7 or 8 |
what is the time it takes to respond to a stimulus, either physically or cognitivety called | Reaction time |
what is the ability to concentrate on some stimuli while ignoring others called | selective attention |
what is a process in which repetition of a sequence of thoughts and actions makes the sequence routine, so that it no longer conscious thought called | automatization |
when is the cortex relatively thin | the beginning of chidhood |
at what age does the cortex grow thicker and reaches a peak | At about age 8 |
what is aptitude | the potential to master a particular skill or to learn a particular body of knowledge |
tests designated to measure intellectual aptitude, or ability to learn in schools | IQ tests |
Intelligence age (IQ) | Mental age divided by chronological age times 100 |
What percent of IQ scores fall within the normal range | 70 percent- in theory most people are average |
The potential to mater a particular body of knowledge | aptitude |
Measures mastery of proficiency in reading, math, writing, science, or any other subject. | Achievement test |
The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations | Flynn Effect |
An IQ test designed for school-age children which asseses potential in many areas including vocabulary, general knowledge, memory, and spatial lcomprehension. | Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) |
Literally, slow or late thinking | Mental retardation |
If a person scores below a 70 on an IQ test and behind their peers in daily life they are considered | mentally retarded |
a criticism of IQ testing | there is only one general thing called intelligence |
If humans have multiple intelligences | then the use of IQ scores are based on false premise. |
Robert Stenbergs three types of intelligence are | Academic- measuring IQ and achievement Creative-evidenced by imaginative endeavors Practical-seen in everyday problem solving |
linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic reflect what? | Howard Gardenr's eight intelligences |
Children who, because of a physical or mental disability, require extra help in order to learn. | children with special needs |
the field tht uses insights into typical development to study and treat developmental disorders and vice versa | developmental psychopathology |
DSM-IV-TR | the American Psychiatric Association's offical guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders. |
What are the four lessons that apply to everyone? | -abnormality is normal -disability changes year by year -adulthood may be better or worse -diagnosis depends on the social context |
A condition in which a person not only has a great difficulty concentrating for more than a few moments but also is attentive, impulsive, and overactive. | Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD) |
The presence of two or more unrelated disease conditions at the same time in the same person. | Comorbidity |
A marked delay in a particular area of learning that is not caused by an apparent physical disability, by mental retardation, or by a stressful environment. | Learning Disabilities |
Unusual difficulty in reading; thought to be a result of some neurological underdevelopment | dyslexia |
a developmental disorder marked by an inability to relate to other people normally, extreme self absorption, and an inablity to acquire normal speech. | Autism |
any of several disorders characterized by inadequate social skills, usually communication, and abnormal play. | autistics spectrum disorder |
a specific type of autistic spectrum disorder characterized by extreme attention to details and deficient social understanding | Asperger syndrome |
a document that specifies educational goals and plans for a child with special needs | IEP- Individual education plan |
a legal requirement that children with special needs be assigned to the most general educational context in which they can be expected to learn | LRE- least restrictive environment |
a room in which trained teachers help children with specialized needs uising specialized curricula and equipment | resource room |
an approach to educating children with special needs in which they are included in regular classrooms with "appropriate aids and services" as required by law. | Inclusion |
People with attention-deficit disorders, learning disabilites, and autism may function adequately or may have life long problems depending on | the severity of the disorder, family, school, and culture, as well as on comorbid conditions. |
What percent of school-age children recieve special education services | 10 percent |
many developmentalist criticize what? | IQ tests |