Physical Development
Biological changes that occur in the body and brain, including changes in size and strength and integration of sensory and motor activities
What is physical development
Children between 6 and 12 years of age develop logical thinking but still cannot think abstractly
What is the concrete operations stage?
How we think about or describe ourselves
What is self-concept?
A system of symbols we use to communicate with others or to think
What is language?
The body's physiological reaction to a situation, the cognitive interpretation of the situation, communication to another person, and actions.
What is emotion?
the localization of a function in one hemisphere of the brain or the other
What is lateralization?
What is reversibility?
How we feel about the characteristics we associate with ourselves
What is self-esteem?
The set of skills that develop before children begin formal reading instruction, which provides the foundation for later academic skills.
What is emergent literacy?
All the associations and interpretations that an individual connects to a certain emotion.
What are emotion schemas?
the most common chronic illness in childhood, in which a child's airways constrict, making it difficult to breathe
What is asthma?
The ability to organize objects into hierarchical conceptual categories
What is the classification?
Using the reaction of others to determine how to react in ambiguous situations
What is social referencing?
Reading between an adult and a child – essential that both play the roles of the storyteller and the active listener/questioner (PEER)
What is dialogic reading?
The ability to understand and control one's emotions, to understand the emotions of others, and to use this understanding in human interactions.
What is emotional intelligence?
Children grow on average a little over 2 inches in height each year and gain about 6.5 pounds.
What is physical development in middle childhood?
The ability to put objects in order by height, weight, or some other quality.
What is seriation?
Comparing one's own performance or characteristics to those of other people
What is social comparison?
Implementing the reading approach that uses the letter-sound relationship (basic skills)
What is the phonetic approach to reading?
Easy temperament, difficult temperament, and slow-to-warm temperament
What is measuring temperament?
Specific brain structures that experience growth during middle childhood include the following areas
What are the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, and the corpus callosum?
Processing speed increases and automaticity makes us able to do certain familiar tasks without having to pay much attention to them.
How does attention develop in middle childhood?
A disorder marked by obsessions or intrusive thoughts and repeated behaviors that people feel compelled to do to control the obsessive thoughts
What is an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
–Immersion programs
–ESL pull-out programs
–Transitional bilingual education programs
–Developmental bilingual programs
–Two-way immersion programs
What are programs designed to teach English to children who are not native speakers?
A parental style that teaches children how to understand their emotions and deal with them.
A parental style that teaches children to ignore their feelings
What is emotion coaching?
What is emotion dismissing?