Biosocial Development
The growth rate during middle childhood is generally described as this, compared to early childhood or adolescence.
What is slow and steady (or stable)?
Piaget’s stage of cognitive development for children aged 6 to 11, characterized by logical thinking about tangible experiences.
What is the Concrete Operational stage?
"Thinking about thinking," or the ability to evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it.
What is metacognition?
According to Erikson, the primary psychological crisis of middle childhood is this versus inferiority.
What is Industry?
Repeated, systematic efforts to inflict harm through physical, verbal, or social attacks on a weaker person.
What is bullying?
The time it takes to respond to a stimulus, which decreases significantly in middle childhood due to increased myelination, is called this.
What is reaction time?
The logical concept that objects can be organized into categories or classes based on shared characteristics.
What is classification?
The Component of the memory system where current, conscious mental activity occurs (formerly called short-term memory).
What is working memory?
A child’s tendency to assess their own abilities, status, and achievements against those of their peers.
What is social comparison?
The legal and genetic relationships among relatives living in the same home (e.g., nuclear, single-parent, extended).
What is family structure?
According to the BMI chart, a child is classified as obese when their BMI is above this percentile for children of their age and gender.
What is the 95th percentile?
The logical principle that things can be arranged in a meaningful series, such as from smallest to largest.
What is seriation?
The unofficial, unstated rules, priorities, and cultural expectations that influence student learning in schools.
What is the hidden curriculum?
The capacity to adapt well and recover quickly from significant adversity or stress.
What is resilience?
How a family interacts and works to meet the physical, emotional, and social needs of its members.
What is family function?
The ability to concentrate on some stimuli while ignoring others, driven by neurological maturation, is known as this.
What is selective attention?
Vygotsky emphasized that children learn in this metaphorical area between what they can do independently and what they can do with assistance.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)?
These pay for some of the tuition to go to a private school.
What are vouchers.
A child who believes their abilities are fixed and cannot be improved by effort exhibits this mindset.
What is a fixed mindset (or helplessness)?
A child who is actively disliked and avoided by peers, often due to aggressive or timid behavior, falls into this sociometric category.
What is rejected (aggressive-rejected or withdrawn-rejected)?
Linguistic, logical-mathematic, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal
What are multiple intelligences?
Piaget noted that children in middle childhood understand this concept: that a quantity remains the same despite changes in shape or container.
What is conservation?
A document that specifies educational goals and plans for a child with intellectual disorders.
What is an Individual Education Plan (IEP)?
According to Kohlberg, the level of moral reasoning focused on societal laws, rules, and social order is this level.
What is Conventional moral reasoning?
What is child culture?