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The current leading cause of most deaths in children.
What is accidents?
100

Compared to earlier years, growth in height and weight during ages 5 to 7 does this.

What is slows down?

100

During this age range, children experience more individual variation in physical growth.

What is eight to nine years old?

100
Heavy use of this substance can result in liver damage, stroke and possible accidental death.
What is alcohol?
100
The term for the cessation of ovulation and menstruation.
What is Menopause?
200

: Researchers estimate that about half of a child’s critical brain development occurs before this stage of schooling.

 What is kindergarten?

200

Children in this age range can jump, skip, and hop, but they also enjoy climbing trees and doing this activity on wheels.

What is roller skating?

200

 Hand-eye coordination helps children shoot basketballs more accurately and play these types of instruments.

What are musical instruments?

200
This type of intelligence includes the ability to recognize and deal with one's own feelings and the feelings of others and can be just as important as IQ for success.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
200
According to one study, this sometimes fails because of imcompatibility, lack of emotional support, or abuse.
What is marriage?
300

This is the typical age at which children start formal schooling in the United States.

 What is five years old?

300

Writing letters like “D” and “B” requires this type of coordination, which involves the ability to move the hands precisely in response to what the eyes see.

What is hand-eye coordination?

300
According to Erikson, the adolescent's primary task involves the search for this.
What is Identity?
300
In comparison with the previous generation, women today tend to have these later in life.
What are children?
300
This disorder is caused by a decrease of estrogen producton and characterized by increased risk of bone fracture.
What is osteoporosis?
400

 Schools often provide these assessments or guidelines to help determine if children are prepared for kindergarten.

 What are readiness assessments?

400

By the time children enter elementary school, their brains are almost at this percentage of their adult size.

 What is full size (or nearly full size)?

400
According to Gilligan, whereas moral reasoning for males tends to focus on justice, moral reasoning for females is concerned more with this.
What is Showing of Care?
400
Compared with women, young men tend to have fewer of these and they are generally less intimate and less satisfying.
What are friendships?
400
Most research indicates that this stage of adulthood is a social construct or a myth, and is not necessarily a source of psyhological distress in middle adulthood.
What is a midlife crisis?
500

 Educators encourage parents to do this from birth to stimulate brain development in young children.

 What is provide early learning experiences?

500

 According to Piaget, children in this age range begin to understand this concept, which means that objects remain the same even if their appearance changes.

What is conservation?

500
Adolescents increasing ability to make moral judgments and plan for the future shows they are capable of this.
What is Abstract Thinking?(Formal Operations)
500
These relationships, when compared to heterosexual relationships, have similar ingredients for long-term satisfaction.
What are homosexual relationships?
500
According to the text, feelings and beliefs and stress can affect our bodily functions and specifically affect this system.
What is the immune system?