What age are the children in middle childhood?
5-12
Who becomes nearly as influential as peer groups?
Family Members
___ suggests that at the individual level, self-perceptions emerge.
Cognitive theory
Using technologies before bed is linked to ____
Sleep Deprivation
Children start to gain the experience of developing more ___ friendships
Complex
According to Piaget, what stage is middle childhood?
Concrete Operational Stage
What is the ability to engage in contained, positive, and multiply satisfactory social interactions
Social competency
Research shows the greater the ____ experienced as a young child, the more likely they are to continue to experience gender variance through adolescence.
gender dysphoria
____ is a big threat to young children
Cyberbullying
These friendships are based on the awareness of others' thoughts, feelings, and ___
Needs
Piaget's concrete operational stage means that the child obtains the ability to think ___
Logically
____ plays a powerful role in academic achievement and psychosocial well being
Peer Groups
Many children experience a ___ sense of gender identity typically before puberty
Fluid
Some negative consequences are feeling more comfortable existing or interacting in a virtual world rather than real ____
Environment
The concept of "friend" is transformed from playmate to ____
Confidant
Why were the kids in this stage able to understand that the playdough ball stays the same whether it's in a different shape or not?
conservation
Gains in cognitive abilities promote more complex ______ skills and greater social awareness
Communication
Children who receive the pronouns they/them/there's at birth
theybies
Neuroscientists argue that children and adults struggle to release ___
Dopamine
Friendships acquire a more intense more _____ component
Emotional
This is the space between the child’s current developmental and potential level if given help by a teacher, parent, or mentor.
Zone of proximal development
Why does aggression in sports start to decrease in kids during this stage?
perspective-taking ability
Theorists ____ proposed that whereas boys separate psychologically from their female caregivers in early childhood, most girls deepen their connection to and identification with their female caregivers throughout childhood
Nancy Chodorow
Advances in social media, gaming, television, and the music industry are what form of advances?
Technological
Friendships serve as a protector factor when facing social victimization and ____
Bullying