Developmental Psychology 2017 Chapter 7 Study Guide

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What things are true about the physical changes in middle & late childhood ?
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What things are true about the physical changes in middle & late childhood ?
Slow, consistent growth, Increase muscle mass & strength increase, Baby fat decreases, Body more poroportional
What things are true about motor development in middle & late childhood ?
Increased myelination-Boys better gross motor skills- Girls better with fine motor skills- Need a lot of activity
What are the leading causes of death in middle & late childhood?
Accidents, cancer, Birth defects, homicide, heart disease
Children in Piage'ts Concrete Operational stage can do what thing ?
Piage'ts third stage, can perform concrete operations and reason logically and are able to classify things into different sets
What is Seriation ?
Concrete operation that involves ordering stimuli along a quantitative dimension (such as length).
Arrange objects in order based on a property
What is transitivity ?
The ability to logically combine relations to understood certain conclusions. if A=B & B=C then A=C
What is conservation of mass ?
Gelman attentional training on one dimension such as numbers improves preschool children performance on another dimension such as mass
What is fuzzy trace ?
Memory is best understood by considering two types of memory. Verbatin memory trace 2- gist. Older children better memory is attributed to fuzzy traces created by extracting the gist of information
Children's information processing in middle and late childhood includes what things?
Children use attention memory and strategies to process information, attention improves, become experts, think more critically, long term memory increases
What do we mean by scientific thinking critical thinking, creative thinking?
Scientific - compare ,sort organize, predict experment, evaluate apply

Critical - the ability to think clearly and rationally, what to do or believe critical

Creative - means thinking about new things and thinking in new ways
What is the "normal "IQ range ?A person mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100--100+/-15What is the ability to get the gist of something called ?Noun quick summary or the main point of something Fuzzy TraceWhat is Metalinguistic Awareness and what happens to it in middle/late childhood?Knowledge about language understanding what a preposition is. Being able to discuss the sounds of language. Define words as well as use them.Put words together syntax, cultural appropriatenessWhat are whole language and basic-skills-and-phonics approaches to reading?Instruction should be parallel to natural language learning. Phonics- approach written symbols into sounds Vocabulary increases from 14,000-40,000 words categorize by parts of speech.