Theorists
The name of the theorist who called middle childhood the concrete operational stage.
Who is Jean Piaget?
During hemispheric lateralization, this hemisphere becomes increasingly involved with language and movement.
What is the left hemisphere?
Eating, bathing and showering are examples of this.
What are activities of daily living?
The end result of brain maturation (brain lateralization) that occurs in middle childhood.
What is hemispheric specialization?
The play category that is a major component during middle childhood.
What is physical play?
According to Freud's theory, this stage occurs during middle childhood.
What is latency?
The number of inches a child in middle childhood grows per year.
What is 2-3 inches?
The age range for being able to tie shoes.
What is 6 to 7 years old?
Specific mental functions of control over both motor and psychological events at the body level.
What are psychomotor functions?
This may be difficult for a child with autism to interpret and decode??
What is social cues?
Erik Erikson uses this stage of personality development to explain middle childhood.
What is Industry versus Inferiority?
Stereognosis, the recognition of objects by manipulation, is this type of sensory perception.
What is kinesthetic perception?
Thinking about IADLs, which new household responsibilities start to become more prevalent.
What are chores, money management, pet care?
The ability to understand that the materials may change shape but retain the same properties when manipulated.
What is conservation?
This skill is the best predictor of success during adulthood.
The theorist who discusses the development of a mental thrust into adult concepts.
Who is Robert Havighurst?
This type of refined timing can be seen when a child in middle childhood plays dodgeball.
What is coincidence-anticipation timing?
Socialization and engagement with diverse populations occur in this setting.
What is school?
The type of memory that is a "mental workspace" we can use to store information while performing mental activities.
What is working memory?
Towards the end of middle childhood, children play more of this due to the increase of video games and computer games.
What is single-player games?
The two theorists that both highlighted peer interaction.
Who is Robert Havighurst and Erik Erikson?
The ability to single out a teacher's voice in a crowded classroom is an example of this type of auditory perception.
What is auditory figure-ground perception?
This can be described as the understanding of the passage of time as it relates to planning, sequence, and altering movements.
What is temporal awareness?
A type of metacognition involving our own conscious awareness of memory capabilities and the intentional strategies to aid one's memory.
What is metamemory?