Middle Childhood: Influences Beyond Family & Peers
100
True or False:
Changes in height and weight happen faster in the preschool years than in infant years.
What is False
100
True or False:
Cross-race effect is a phenomenon in which individuals are more likely to remember the faces of people of their own race than those of people of a different race.
What is True
100
True or False:
Spatial Perception is the ability to focus cognitive activity on the important elements of a problem or situation.
What is False
100
A ___ is a stable pattern of responding to situations.
What is Trait
100
True or False:
The daily life of a school-aged child is shaped by more than the hours he or she spending with his or her family and peers.
What is True
200
True or False:
Laterlization is the process in which brain functions are divided between the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex.
What is True
200
Social-cognitive theory is a theoretical perspective which asserts that _____ and ______ development in early childhood is related to improvements in the cognitive domain.
What is Social and personality
200
Risks associated with childhood obesity include all except:
What is emotional
200
The Big Five Personality Traits include all the following except:
What is Determinism
200
For _____, resilient children are those who develop problems because of living in poverty.
What is Developmentalists
300
What is the hippocampus’ primary function?
What is Learning
300
In Hoffman’s Stages in Development of Empathy, ¬¬¬_____ is observed within the first year. For example, if an infant sees another infant crying, he or she may begin crying with the infant.
What is Global Empathy
300
_____ is the thinking that takes multiple variables into account.
What is Decentration
300
Name three qualities of Neuroticism.
What is Anxious, self-pitying, and touchy
300
The child poverty rate in the United States declined from ___ to 22% in 2011.
What is 28%
400
What is an example of a risk factor of abuse and neglect?
What is Sociocultural factors
400
What are the three explanations of cognitive-development?
What is Gender identity, gender stability, and gender constancy
400
What is the ability to make efficient use of short-term memory capacity?
What is Processing efficiency
400
____ is the ability to conform to parental standard of behavior without direct supervision.
What is Self-regulation
400
Poor families live in ____ environments and are more highly ____.
What is Chaotic, Stressed
500
Describe Piaget’s Preoperational Stage.
What is Children become proficient at using symbols for thinking and communicating, but still have difficulties thinking logically
500
What are the four parenting styles and which parenting style is most consistently linked to positive outcomes?
What is Permissive, Authoritarian, Authoritative, and Uninvolved; Authoritative
500
What are three types of intelligence that Howard Gardner proposed in his theory of multiple intelligences?
What is Naturalist, Musical, Bodily kinesthetic
500
What are the three groups researchers found based on social status?
What is popular, rejected, and neglected
500
Name a protective factor.
What is Parental supervision and monitoring of children’s activities