T1-School age

Question 1

What is the age for school age children?

Answer 1

6-12

Question 2

What is Erikson’s stage for school age?

Answer 2

Industry vs. inferiority

Question 3

What do school age children start to see?

Answer 3

Pre-pubescence changes

Question 4

School age children take ____ in doing well

Answer 4

Pride

Question 5

Is weight gain slow or rapid with school age?

Answer 5

Rapid

Question 6

What should vision be for school age?

Answer 6

20/20

Question 7

What is perfected during the school ages?

Answer 7

Muscle skills and coordination

Question 8

School age children have a sense of ____ and if they are successful, they will work hard to achieve a goal

Answer 8

Competence

Question 9

Girls generally gain ____ per year. When is the major weight gain seen in girls?

Answer 9

7lb/year

age 9-12

Question 10

When do boys gain weight?

Answer 10

10-12

Question 11

When do school age children experience a growth spurt?

Answer 11

Right before puberty

Question 12

How do the arms of school age children look?

Answer 12

Long and lanky

Question 13

What is the most important factor for developing high self esteem?

Answer 13

Home

Question 14

What becomes an important concept for school age children?

Answer 14

Fairness

Question 15

How tall is a 6 year old? weight?

Answer 15

46 inches

46 lbs

Question 16

How tall is a 12 year old? weight?

Answer 16

59 inches

88 lbs

Question 17

Do school age children sleep well?

Answer 17

Tend not to sleep well

Question 18

What are some school age reactions to separation?

Answer 18

1. Miss routines and usual activities of school and friends
   - Feel lonely, bored, isolated or depressed
   - Need want parent guidance but don’t ask for it due to independence

Question 19

What is enuresis? What age? When does this occur?

Answer 19

Involuntary passage of urine past the age when a child should be expected to have attained bladder control

OCcurs 5-7 years, more frequently in boys

Usually is nocturnal, but can be diurnal (day and night both)

Question 20

What is encopresis?

Answer 20

Constipation so severe, that there is involuntary release of stool..sometimes diarrhea when the body can not longer contain the stool

Child must be at least 4 to be diagnosed with this

Question 21

When does onset of psychological changes begin?

Answer 21

9 years old, particularly in girls

Question 22

Is visible sex maturation common in boys?

Answer 22

No, its minimal

Question 23

Bladder capacity is greater in boys or girls?

Answer 23

Boys

Question 24

What is Freud’s stage of psychosexual development for school age?

Answer 24

Latency

Question 25

What is Piaget's stage of cognitive development in school age children?

Answer 25

Concrete operations---children are able to use their thought processes to experience events and actions

Question 26

If a child masters Piagets' stage of concrete operations, what happens?

Answer 26

- Preceptual thinking to conceptual thinking - Master concept of conservation - Tells time - Classifies more complex info - Able to see perspectives of others - Solve problems

Question 27

What is Eriksons' stage for school age? What should children be taught about this?

Answer 27

Industry vs. Inferiorty Not everyne will master every skill

Question 28

What does the school age child focuses mainly on developing?

Answer 28

Fine muscle facility and complex artistic skills

Question 29

What are parenting concerns for this age?

Answer 29

- Being rejected by their child in preference to peer groups - Explaining sex to their children - Academics

Question 30

Discuss Piaget's concept of conservation.

Answer 30

The physical matter does not appear and disappear by magic--children learn certain properties of the environment are not changed simply by altering their disposition in space

Question 31

What is the order conservation is understood?

Answer 31

Conservation of mass is understood first, followed by weight, and then volume

Question 32

What is the moral reasoning of the early school age child? (4)

Answer 32

Do not understand reasoning behind rules and expectations for behavior Believe what they think is wrong and what others tell them is right Judgement is guided by rewards and punishment Sometimes interpret accidents as punishment

Question 33

What is the moral reasoning of the later school age child?

Answer 33

- Able to judge intentions of an act rather than its consequences - Understand different points of view instead of just whether or not an act is wrong or right - Conceptualizes treating others as they like to be treated

Question 34

What are the major fears of school age children?

Answer 34

Fear of failing Fear of teachers and bullies Fear something bad is happening to their parents

Question 35

What is the role of peers in a school age childs life? Who is the primary influence?

Answer 35

Identification with peers is a strong influence of gaining independence from parents Parents are primary influence

Question 36

What is the importance of team play?

Answer 36

1. Contributes to childrens social, intellectual, and skill growth 2. Children work hard to develop the skills needed to become members of team and to improve their contribution to group effort. 3. Help learn about nature of competition 4. Learn to subordinate personal goals to group goals

Question 37

What is the importance of rules and rituals?

Answer 37

1. Begin to see need for rules and that games have rules | 2. Part of the enjoyment of the game is knowing the rules, because knowing means belonging

Question 38

Do sleep needs decrease or increase for school age? How many hours needed?

Answer 38

Decrease--9 hours needed

Question 39

If a school age child doesnt want to go to bed, what do we do?

Answer 39

Firm approach--give advance warning of bedtime but they need to realize when you say bedtime, you mean it

Question 40

What is a big nutrition concern for this age group?

Answer 40

Obesity