Middle Childhood
Middle childhood generally includes children between these ages.
What is approximately 6 to 12 years old?
Piaget’s stage of cognitive development for middle childhood.
What is the concrete operational stage?
Tanner staging measures this rather than chronological age.
What is sexual maturity or pubertal development?
This nutrient supports muscle growth and tissue repair during adolescence.
What is protein?
Seat belts, bicycle helmets, and sports equipment help prevent these.
What are unintentional injuries or accidents?
During middle childhood, children grow approximately this many inches each year.
What is 2 to 3 inches?
Erikson’s developmental stage for adolescents.
What is identity versus role confusion?
Tanner’s theory divides pubertal development into this many stages.
What are five stages?
Adolescents should receive this many minutes of physical activity each day.
What is at least 60 minutes?
This is the leading cause of death among children ages 5 to 14 in the United States.
What are unintentional injuries or accidents?
School-age children typically need this many hours of sleep each night.
What is 9 to 12 hours?
According to Kohlberg, school-age children enter this level of morality, where they follow rules and seek approval.
What is conventional morality?
This Tanner stage represents a prepubertal child with no signs of puberty.
What is Stage I?
Adolescents should receive this many hours of sleep each night.
What is 8 to 10 hours?
This is the leading cause of fatal unintentional injuries among children ages 5 to 14.
What are motor vehicle crashes?
Handwriting, drawing, sewing, and playing musical instruments demonstrate the development of these skills.
What are fine motor skills?
Conservation, classification, seriation, and logical thinking are characteristics of this Piaget stage.
What is the concrete operational stage?
Breast budding in girls and testicular enlargement in boys first appear during this Tanner stage.
What is Stage II?
his mineral is especially important for menstruating females and rapidly growing males because it supports red blood cell production.
What is iron?
This is the second-leading cause of unintentional injury death among children ages 5 to 14.
What is drowning?
Success in school, sports, and friendships helps school-age children develop this positive view of themselves.
What is self-esteem or confidence?
An adolescent considers how studying more could improve future grades. This demonstrates the ability to think in this way.
What is abstractly, or what is formal operational thinking?
Adult physical appearance and sexual maturity are reached during this Tanner stage.
What is Stage V?
Recurrent binge eating followed by vomiting, laxative misuse, or excessive exercise describes this eating disorder.
What is bulimia nervosa?
During adolescence, this part of the brain responsible for judgment, planning, and impulse control is still developing.
What is the prefrontal cortex?