Physical Dev
During this stage the rate of growth has slowed and the individuals appear slimmer with more muscle strength and lung capacity. Their bodies are still proportionate.
What is mid-late childhood physical development?
What is concrete operational?
This is defined as unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance
What is bullying?
Boy typically outperform girls in this physical growth motor skill.
What are gross motor skills?
This is the amount of hours a teen should sleep each night.
What is 8-10 hours?
The protective cover on the axon that speeds up processing information and occurs at all stages.
What is myelination?
The Piaget Stage for adolescence.
What is formal operational?
This is important to helping an adolescent learn time management, meet others outside of school, and feel a sense of responsibility.
What is first jobs?
This has become a part of mid-late childhood's playtime and is mistaken for exercise by many children.
What are e-sports?
What is 14 years old?
This expresses the relationship between weight and height.
What is Body Mass Index (BMI)?
Children acquire this during mid-late childhood and is when a child understands that changing one quality of the object may not completely change the object itself (hint or its amount).
What is conservation?
This becomes much more important in adolescence, but usually is their first attempt and can be very messy. It's "puppy-like."
What is romantic relationships?
The decrease in the number of hours of this period in school has been correlated with the increase in childhood obesity.
What is Physical education/gym/PE?
Physical changes that are not directly linked to reproduction but signal sexual maturity.
What are secondary sexual characteristics?
This marks the beginning of adolescence and is changes in physical and sexual development/maturation.
What is puberty?
In adolescence, this can cause plasticity and flexibility of mental processes to decrease. Previously we would consider this a great process.
What is synaptic pruning?
When an adolescent has not committed to an identity but is exploring their options.
What is identity moratorium?
An ability of concrete operational thought when some things that have been changed can be returned to the original state. (water to ice back to water)
What is reversibility?
The neurotransmitter that allows us to bond with others and makes social connections rewarding.
What is oxytocin?
The restriction of energy intake, low body weight, fear of gaining weight, and disturbance in self-evaluation of one’s body.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This type of information processing is also known as top down.
What is deductive reasoning?
The stage of moral development children fall under in Kohlberg's Moral Stages.
What is preconventional?
This is a type of short-term memory that allows us to manipulate information to understand it better.
What is working memory?
The structures of the limbic system. (Full point for all, 100 points for each structure named)
What are the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, hypothalamus, and basal ganglia?