Physical
The amount a child grows each year in middle childhood.
What are 5-7 pounds and 2-3 inches?
The theorist who focused on social learning based on scaffolding and the zone of proximal development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
One's beliefs about their general identity.
What is self concept?
The moral dilemma made famous by Kohlberg.
What is the Heinz dilemma?
The total of all words in a given language.
What is a lexicon?
The section of the brain responsible for transferring information from short term to long term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The awareness of one's own individual thought processes.
What is metacognition?
Erikson's psychosocial stage mastered in middle childhood.
What is industry vs. inferiority?
The first of Kohlberg's stages seen in middle childhood.
What is preconventional morality?
The theorist who believed language and reading are learned through assimilation and accommodation of new information.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The improvement of skills in this category include riding a bike, running longer distances, cutting paper, and writing with accuracy.
What are gross and fine motor skills?
The 1975 legislation that ensured a proper education for persons with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
The belief that oneself is capable of carrying out a task or achieving a goal.
What is self efficacy?
The second of Kohlberg's stages seen in middle childhood.
What is conventional morality?
The teaching of reading skills based on letters and their corresponding sounds.
What is a phonics-based approach?
The body's need for a balanced diet and for food as fuel.
What is nutrition?
Learning through paying attention and the use of memory strategies to store information long-term, which gains efficacy in middle childhood.
What is the Information Processing Model?
The perceived lack of control when completing a task.
What is learned helplessness?
The motivating factors in the preconventional stage of morality.
What are self-interest and reward?
The combination of phonemes to make the smallest units of meaning in a language.
What are morphemes?
This basic need reduces stress, maintains a healthy weight, and the healthy development of motor skills.
What is physical activity?
The trademark skills mastered in Piaget's middle childhood stage: the concrete operational stage.
What are reversibility and conservation?
Unwanted, aggressive behavior among school children involving a real or perceived power imbalance on social media or the internet.
What is cyberbullying?
The theorist whom Kohlberg's work was built off of.
Who is Jean Piaget?
How context is used to understand sentences and phrases in a language.
What are pragmatics?