This continues to rise among children, due in large part to urbanization shifting the population toward sedentary lifestyles and diets high in meats and energy-dense refined foods.
What is childhood obesity?
100
This type of play peaks in middle childhood.
What is rough and tumble play?
100
These are mental representations created by children of familiar large-scale spaces, such as their neighborhood or school.
What are cognitive maps?
100
By this age, most children shift adaptively between the two general strategies for managing emotion, problem-centered coping, and emotion centered coping.
What is age 10?
100
A hallmark of preoperational thought, this is the failure to distinguish other's symbolic viewpoints from one's own. Piaget's three mountain problem was a good example of this.
What is egocentrism?
200
The percentage of children who do this with their families drops sharply between ages 9-14.
What is eat dinner?
200
Gains in fine-motor development are most evident in these areas.
What are writing and drawing.
200
This is known as the ability to order items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight.
What is seriation?
200
Pride and guilt are examples of these types of emotions, which become governed by personal responsibility during middle childhood.
What are self-conscious emotions?
200
Even preschoolers with good language skills recall poorly because they are not good at using these, which are deliberate mental activities that improve our chances of remembering.
What are memory strategies?
300
When many stimuli impact them at once, young school-age children often fail to think before they act. This is one of the main reasons this rises sharply from middle childhood to adolescence, with boys impacted at a considerably higher rate than girls.
What are fatal injuries?
300
Running, jumping, hopping, and ball skills become more refined during this period. This reflects gains in these four basic motor capacities.
What is flexibility, balance, agility, and force.
300
Rehearsal and organization are two examples of these, which are deliberate mental activities used to store and retain information.
What are memory strategies?
300
If problem solving does not work, children often engage in this type of coping, which is internal, private, and aimed at controlling distress when little can be done about an outcome.
What is emotion centered coping?
300
The age range at which intelligence test scores become good predictors of later IQ and academic achievement.
What is age 6-7?
400
Boys, African-American children, children who were born underweight, whose parents smoke, or who live in poverty are at greatest risk of this.
What is asthma?
400
With it's roots embedded in rough-and-tumble play, this is the term for a stable ordering of group members that predicts who will win when conflict arises. Once it is established, hostility is rare.
What is dominance hierarchy?
400
In tribal and village societies, this concept related to concrete operational thought is often delayed.
What is conservation?
400
The psychological conflict of middle childhood, according to Erickson.
What is industry v. inferiority?
400
Self-conscious emotions appear during the middle of this year of life.
What is the second year?
500
This, even in mild form, can significantly impact cognitive functioning.
What are nutritional deficits?
500
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Children who have this quality are likely to become active adults who have greater physical strength, resistance to illnesses, enhanced psychological well-being, and a longer life.
What is physical fitness?
500
Children with persistent learning difficulties in reading and math are often deficient in this.
What is working memory capacity?
500
In middle childhood, children refine this, by organizing their observations of behaviors and internal states into general dispositions. They emphasize competencies, and describe both negative and positive traits of their personality.
What is self-concept.
500
Newly mobile babies use the caregiver as this, from which they explore around them.