Rough-And-Tumble Play
– wrestling, kicking, tumbling, grappling, and chasing, accompanied by laughing and screaming
Body Image
(how one believes one looks) becomes important early in middle childhood, especially for girls, which could lead to eating disorders during adolescence (may be influenced by playing unrealistic dolls such as barbie
Acute Medical Conditions
– occasional, short-term conditions, such as infections and warts
Chronic Medical Conditions
– physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions that persists 3 months or more such as asthma and diabetes
Asthma
– chronic, allergy-based respiratory disease characterized by sudden attacks of coughing, wheezing, and difficulty breathing
Hypertension
– high blood pressure; children with hypertension are more likely to have learning disabilities and may have problems with executive functioning
Concrete Operations
According to Jean Piaget at about 7 years of age, children enter the stage of
Concrete Operational Stage
Children can now think logically because they can take multiple aspects of situations into account
Seriation
– arranging objects in a series according to one or more dimensions
Class Inclusion
– ability to see the relationship between a whole and its parts, and to understand categories within a whole
Inductive Reasoning
– involves making observations about particular members of a class of people, animals, objects, or events, and then drawing conclusions about the class as a whole
Deductive Reasoning
– starts with a general statement about a class and applies it to particular members of the class
Principle of Identity
still same object even tho it has different appearance
Principle of Reversibility
can picture what would happen if he tried to roll back the clay of snake
Decenter
ability to look at more than one aspect of the two objects at once
Executive Function
– the conscious control of thoughts, emotions, and actions to accomplish goals or solve problems
Selective Attention
– the ability to deliberately direct one’s attention and shut out distractions
Inhibitory control
– the voluntary suppression of unwanted responses
Mnemonic Device
– strategy to aid memory
External Memory Aids
– writing down things to rememberv
Rehearsal
– conscious repetition
Organization
– placing information into categories
Elaboration
– children associate items with something els
Metamemory
– the knowledge of and reflection about memory processes
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)
most widely used individual test
▪ Another common test is Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test
– a popular group tests for kindergarten thru Grade 12
Theory of Multiple Intelligence
– conventional intelligence tap only three types of intelligence: linguistic, logical-mathematical, and to some extent spatial
Componential
analytic aspect, determines how efficiently people process information; helps people solve problems, monitor solutions, and evaluate results
Experiential
insightful or creative, determines how people approach novel or familiar tasks; enables people to compare new information with what they already know and to come up with new ways of putting facts together
Contextual
practical, helps people deal with their environment; the ability to size up situation and decide what to do
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC-II)
– an individual test for ages 3-18, designed to evaluate cognitive abilities in children with diverse needs and from varying cultural and linguistic backgrounds
Self-Efficacy
– an individuals belief that they can execute behaviors necessary to attain specific performance
Intellectual Disability
– significantly subnormal cognitive functioning
Learning Disabilities
– difficulty in learning that involves understanding or using spoken or written language, and the difficulty can appear in listening, thinking, reading, writing, and spelling
Dyslexia
most commonly diagnosed LD; severe impairment in their ability to read and spell
Dysgraphia
– difficulty in handwriting
Dyscalculia
– developmental arithmetic disorder
ADHD
– most common mental disorder in childhood
Autism Spectrum Disorder
– Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Autistic Disorder
– severe developmental ASD that has onset during the first 3 yrs of life
Creativity
– the ability to see things in a new light-to produce something never seen before or to discern problems others fail to recognize and find new and unusual solutions
Convergent Thinking
– seeks single correct answer
Divergent Thinking
– involves coming up with wide array of fresh possibilities
Representational Systems
broad, inclusive self-concepts that integrate various aspects of the self
School Age Age (5-13 yrs)
Industry vs. Inferiority
Competency
Industry vs. Inferiority
Emotional Self-Regulation
voluntary control of emotions, attention, and behavior
Gender Stereotypes
– broad categories that reflect general impressions and beliefs about males and females
Coregulation
– children and parents share power
Internalizing behaviors
– anxiety, fear, depression-anger turned inward
Externalizing behaviors
– aggression, fighting, disobedience, hostility
Prejudice
– unfavorable attitudes towards outsiders
Positive Nomination
– asking children who they like to play with, they like the most, or who they think other kids like the most
Negative Nomination
– opposite of positive nomination
Sociometric Popularity
– measures that is composed of positive nominations, negative nominations or no nominations
Popular Children
– frequently nominated as bestie and rarely disliked by peers
Average children
– receive an average no of both positive and negative nominations
Neglected Children
– infrequently nominated as bestie but not really disliked
Rejected Children
– disliked by peers
Controversial Children
– frequently nominated both bestie and most disliked
Instrumental Aggression
– aimed at achieving an objective
Hostile Aggression
– intended to hurt another person
Hostile Attributional Bias
– quickly conclude, in ambiguous situations that others were acting with ill intent and are likely to strike out in retaliation or self-defense
Bullying
– aggression that is deliberately, persistently directed against a particular target
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
– pattern of defiant, disobedience, and hostility towards adult authority figures lasting at least 6 months
Conduct Disorder
persistent, repetitive pattern, beginning at an early age of aggressive, antisocial acts, such as truancy, setting fires, habitual lying, etc.
School Phobia
– unrealistic fear of going to school
Separation Anxiety Disorder
– excessive anxiety for at least 4 weeks concerning separation from home or from people to whom the child is attached
Social Phobia or Social Anxiety
– extreme fear and/or avoidance of social situations such as speaking in class
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
– children worry about everything, tends to be self-conscious, self-doubting, and excessively concerned with meeting the expectations of others
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
– obsessed by repetitive, intrusive thoughts, image, or impulses, or may show compulsive behaviors
Childhood Depression
– disorder of mood that goes beyond normal, temporary sadness
Resilient Children
– are those who weather circumstances that might blight others, who maintain their composure and competence under challenge or threat
Pre-conventional Reasoning
lowest level
Children interpret good and bad in terms of rewards and punishments
Or they are nice to others so that others will be nice for them
Conventional Reasoning
– individuals abide by certain standards, but they are the standards of the others, either by parents or the society
Post-conventional Reasoning
highest level
Morality is more internal
Individuals engage deliberate checks on their reasoning to ensure that it meets high ethical standards
Care Perspective
– moral perspective that views people in terms of their connectedness with others and emphasizes interpersonal communication, relationship with others, and concerns fir ithers
Domain Theory of Moral Development
– there are different domains of social knowledge and reasoning, including moral, social conventional, and personal domains
Social Conventional Reasoning
– focuses on conventional rules that have been established by social consensus in order to control behavior and maintain the social system
Moral Personality
– pattern of moral characteristics that is distinctively their own
Moral Identity
when moral notions and moral commitments are central to their lives
Moral Character
– has willpower, desire, and integrity to stand up to pressure, overcome distractions and disappointments, and behave morally
Moral Exemplars
– people who have lived exemplary moral lives