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growth during middle years - age 6-12   slow but steady-girls are taller than boys  
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In US, elementary school   grow an average of 2-3 inches a year  
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p. 287 girls start adolescent growth spurt around   age 10  
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From age 6-12, boys & girls gain around   5 to 7 pounds a year  
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Rate of growth during middle childhood is more rapid for p. 287   blacks  
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Protropin-growth hormone p. 287   makes children taller-but effects unknown  
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Nutrition linked to cognitive performance p. 288   children had better relationships, more alert, more eager to try new things  
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p.289 Refusing food-6 yr olds   worry about being fat  
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Obesity   defined as 20% above the average for a person of a given age & weight  
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Children who are obese have greater risk   obese as adults, heart disease, diabetes, shorter life span  
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Parents who are controlling re: eating   children may lack internal controls to regulate their own food intake  
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p. 290 Middle childhood-exercise   from age 6 to 18- boys reduce physical activity by 24% & girls by 35$  
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p. 291 middle school children   ride a bike, ice skate, swim and skip rope  
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p.291 Am. Ac. Pediatrics suggest boy & girls   play together in mixed groups - OK until adolscence bring changes  
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p. 292 fine motor skills   6-7 yr old- tie shoes and fasten buttons  
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by age 8   use each hand independently  
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age 11 & 12   manipulate objects as adults (almost)  
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age 6- 12-how many children will have serious   90% have serious medical conditions  
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asthma   chronic condition characterized by periodic attacks of wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath  
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Why increas in asthma?   pollution "triggers" such as dust, buildings are airtight; poor children-dust mites, cockroach feces, rodent feces  
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accidents p. 293   most frequent source of injury-automobiles - kill 5 out of every 100,000 children between 5 & 9  
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other causes of death p. 293   fires & burns, drowning and gun-related deaths  
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Cyberspace p293   parents supervise-never provide phone numbers  
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p294 psychological disorders   bipolar disorder, depression  
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prescriptions for children 2002 p294   more than 10 million under age of 18  
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Evidence links SSRIs to suicide p294   (blank)  
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p. 295 learning disable   testing can reveal "brain processing problems"  
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visual impairment p295   blindness less than 20/200  
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partial sightedness   visual acuity less than 20/70 after correction  
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1 in 1,000 students requires special education   for visual impairment  
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signals of visual problems in children -295   eyes may develop wrong-watch for eye irritation, blinking -holding material close to face  
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auditory impairment   can cause academic & social problems  
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visual impairment   difficulty seeing -may include blindness or partial sightedness  
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auditory impairment   loss of hearing or some aspect of hearing  
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hearing loss in infancy   never hears language, cannot produce language or understand it  
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loss of hearing after age 3   child can learn  
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abstract thinking - can deaf children understand?   "freedom" or "soul" difficult to explain without language  
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speech impairment   speech that deviates so much from others that is calls attention , interferes with communication, or produces maladjustement in the speaker  
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stuttering   substantial disruption in the rhythm and fluency of speech; the most common speech impairment  
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learning disabilities   difficulties in acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical abilities  
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learning disabilities p. 296   ex. dyslexia-reading disability-misperception of letters  
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p. 297 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder   ADHD learning disability marked by inattention, impulsiveness, low tolerance for frustration, inappropriate activity  
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how ADHD treated?   Ritalin, dexadrine-used to increase attention span & compliance  
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p.299 asthma & depression have increased   over the last several decades  
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder   3-5% of school-age population  
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Piaget - concrete operational thought p 300   7-12 yrs - active and appropriate use of logic  
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concrete operational thought   7-12 yrs - active and appropriate use of logic  
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decentering p 300   ability to take multiple aspects of a situation into account  
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logical operations - apply to concrete problems   when glass is poured from a container, they see that none is lost  
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reversibility p300   ball of clay becomes snake & back again  
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information processing in middle childhood p302   information processing approach compares children to computers-size of memory increases and "programs" process information  
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memory   process by whcih information is initially recorded, stored, and retrieved  
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encoding   child records information  
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stored   information must be placed & maintained in memory system  
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retrieved   material in memory storage is located, brought into awareness, and used  
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short term memory or working memory   by beginning of adolescence, children can remember and reverse six digits  
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conservation problems   children need memory to remember the different pieces  
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metamemory   understanding about the processes that underlie memory, which emerges and imrpoves during middle childhood  
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control strategies   conscious tactics to imrpove cognitive processing-older children will group items to help remember  
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keyword strategy   using one word to remember another  
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p. 302 memory works according to information processing theory   like computers, process more data as memory increases & "program" become better  
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encoding   records information in a form usable to memory  
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stored   information is place & maintained in the memory system  
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retrieved   material in the memory is located, brought into awareness & used  
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p302 short-term memory or working memory   in middle childhood, capacity improves significantly  
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p303 conservation problems involve difficulty   with memory-children cannot recall all the necessary pieces of information  
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metamemory   understanding about the processes that underlie memory, which emerges & improves during childhood  
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p303 control strategies   school-age children can be taught  
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p303 keyword strategy   pairing words so that you can learn groups of words -  
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Vygotsky-classroom instruction   zone of proximal development (ZPD) - children can almost perform tasks-become apprentices  
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p304 cooperative learning   groups- children learn better, but need "expert" child to teach others  
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p304 reciprocal teaching   technique to teach reading comprehension strategies - students read; summarize, then predict what will happen next  
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p304 Vocabulary of 6-yr-old   8,000-14,000 words  
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304 vocabulary between 9-11   grows by another 5,000 words (in other words, between 13,000 - 19,000 words)  
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p305 use of passive voice & conditional sentences   rare during early school-age years; improves "If sarah set table, I will wash dishes)  
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syntax   rules that indicate how words & phrases can be combined to form sentences, grows during middle childhood  
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p305 phenomes   units of sound  
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difficult phenomes   j, v, th & zh - difficult - even for first graders  
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p 305 pragmatics   taking turns in conversation; responding to what others have said  
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p305 metalinguistic awareness   an understanding of one's own use of language  
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p306 bilingualism   in Brooklyn, 40% are immigrants - families speak more than 26 languages  
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p306 "self-talk" experiment-wait & you get 2 marchmallows   4-yr-olds looked at marsh; 6-yr olds spoke & sang, reminding to wait; 8-yr-olds focused on other things; helped them wait  
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p306 "self talk" regulation improved   as language improved, self-talk regulation improved  
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p306 immersion programs   students receive instruction only in English  
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p306 bilingual education   teach in native language and gradually shift into English  
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p306 advantages of bilingualism   greater metalinguistic awareness; understand rules of language better, higher self-esteem, greater cognitive flexibility  
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p306 in canada, bilingual students   scored significantly higher on verbal & nonverbal test of intelligence than those who speak only one language  
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p307 universal processes undlerlie language acquisition, therefore   all children should learn a second language  
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language development is characterized by p.308   improvements in vocabulary, syntax, pragmatics, by growth of metalinguistic awarenness, & by use of language for self-control  
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p309 billion people (2/3 women)   will be illiterate throughout their lives  
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p309 fewer females than males receive education   (blank)  
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p310 stage 0   birth - first grade-learn letter of alphabet  
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stage 1   1st & 2nd grade-sound out words with letters; learn all letters of alphabet  
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stage 2   2nd & 3rd grades - children read aloud with fluency  
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stage 3   4th-8th grade reading becomes a way to learn  
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stage 4   after 8th grade-read & process information that reflects multiple points of view  
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p310 - phonological recoding   sound out words by blending the letters together  
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p 311 code-based approaches   reading is taught by presenting basic skills that underlie reading  
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p311 - code-based approaches   phonics  
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p313 multicultural education   minority students develop compentence in the culture of the majority group while maintaining positive of their original group culturues  
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cultural assimilation model   America is a melting pot  
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cultural assimilation model   goal of education was to assimilate individual cultural identities into a unique, unified American culture-English immersion  
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p314 pluralistic society   american society is made up of diverse, coequal cultural groups that preserve individual cultural features  
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p.314 bicultural identity   maintaining one's original cultural identity while integrating oneself into the dominant culture  
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p. 315 intelligence   capacity to understand the world, think with rationality, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges  
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p315 intelligence-Binet   used trial-and-error approach; therefore, intelligence was "that which his test measured"  
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Binet - method   pragmatic approach; had children perform tests, bright children could do it & dull students could not - did not define intelligence as such  
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p. 316 mental age   typed intelligence level found for people at a given chronological age  
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p. 316 chronological (physical) age   actual age of child taking test  
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p316 Intelligence Quotient (or IQ score)   Originally, Mental Age (MA) was divided by chronological age (CA) X 100 Ex. 15 yr.old who scores at 17 yr mental age=113  
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p317 How are IQ scores done today?   deviation IQ scores - scores take into account the proportion of people who have similar scores  
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p317 Stanford-Binet test   series of items that vary according to the age of the person being tested  
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p317 IQ tests academic knowledge   IQ scores are not closely related to income  
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p. 318 Wechsler Intelligences   seperate measures of verbal and performance (nonverbal) skills - & total score  
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p317 Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children   measures children's ability to integrate different stimuli simultaneously and step-by-step thinking  
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p319 g factor   intelligence is a single factor, a unitary mental ability - underlying performance on every aspect of intelligence  
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p319 - fluid intelligence   reflects information processing abilities, reasoning, memory  
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p. 319 crystallized intelligence   accumulation of information, skills, and strategies - people use experience for problem-solving  
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p319 Vygotsky - dynamic assessment   children should work with adults trying to do  
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p319 fluid intelligence   i  
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p319 Sternberg triarchic theory of intelligence   intelligence consists of three aspects of information processing- componential element, the experiential element, and the contextual element  
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p321 bias in IQ tests   (blank)  
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p320 Gardners's eight intelligences   1 musical 2 bodily 3. Logical mathematical 4. linguistic intelligence 5. spatial intelligence 6. interpersonal intelligence 7. intrapersonal intelligence 8. naturalistic  
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p.321 racial difference in IQ   (blank)  
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p322 Bell Curve   racial differences mean black have lower intelligence - poverty, etc is result of  
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p323 least restrictive environment   the setting that is most similar to that of children without special needs  
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p324 mainstreaming   education approach -exceptional children are integrated into the traditional education system and provided with broad range of educational alternatives  
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p324 mental retardation   significantly subaverage level of intellectual unctioning that occurs with related limitation in two or more skill areas  
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-.325 mild, moderate , severe retardation   definitions  
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p.325 gifted and talentedh   high performance capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, leadership capacity or specific academic fields  
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are gifted children neurotic? p326   no-highly intelligent people are outgoing, well-adjusted and popular  
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p327 acceleration   special porgrams that allow gifted students to move ahead at their own pace, moving to higher grades  
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p.327 enrichment   students kept at grade level but are enrolled in special programs to allow greater depth of study on a given topic  
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