Test III

Question 1

What are the main causes of death in middle childhood?

Answer 1

1) poisoning (year 2)
2) drowning (year 3)
3) car crashes (year 3)

Question 2

What part of the body grows the fastest in middle childhood?

Answer 2

Lower body

Question 3

The hallmark of concrete operational thought is:

Answer 3

logic

Question 4

Understanding that the # amount stays the same if you rearrange it

Answer 4

Conservation

Question 5

Seeing two aspects at the same time

Answer 5

Decentration

Question 6

Ex. Pouring water from a tall glass to a short glass

Answer 6

Reversibility

Question 7

Understanding you can be a mom, a daughter, and a sister

Answer 7

Classification

Question 8

Can tell how far things are

Answer 8

Spatial Reasoning

Question 9

Children in concrete operational stage can solve conservation problems because:

Answer 9

They can decenter and use reversibility

Question 10

What they need to do/not do/use a filter

Answer 10

Inhibition

Question 11

Doesn’t change across lifespan

Answer 11

Sensory memory

Question 12

What are the three attentional processes?

Answer 12

1) Control
2) Planfulness
3) Adaptability

Question 13

Control

Answer 13

What to focus on

Question 14

Order you need to do stuff

Answer 14

Planfulness

Question 15

Adaptability

Answer 15

Shift attention from one thing to another

Question 16

Difficulty with focus/control/can’t sit still/impulsive

Answer 16

ADHD

Question 17

True or false: ADHD runs in families

Answer 17

True: common among children with teratogen exposure

Question 18

Elaborative Rehearsal

Answer 18

Create picture of items/make stuff meaningful to you

Question 19

Metacognition

Answer 19

Thinking about thinking

Question 20

Why do grades decline transitioning from middle school to HS to college, etc?

Answer 20

Higher standards and less supportive teaching

Question 21

Erikson - Industry vs. Inferiority (Latency)

Answer 21

Kids wanna do well in school/develop social skills/self-esteem/confidence grow as skills grow

Question 22

What are the sociometric ratings and correlates?

Answer 22

1) Popular
2) Rejected/unpopular
3) Controversial children
4) Neglected children

Question 23

Popular-Prosocial

Answer 23

Kind, empathetic, but can be relationally aggressive later on life

Question 24

Popular-Antisocial

Answer 24

Attractive, athletic, $$, and mean

Question 25

Rejected-Aggressive

Answer 25

No $$, does poorly in school

Question 26

Rejected-Withdrawn

Answer 26

Bullied, submissive, no one to protect them

Question 27

Rejected-Different

Answer 27

Appearance, disabilities, sexual orientation

Question 28

Controversial Children

Answer 28

Funny, high rates of social behavior, "class clown", "relatively attractive, aka Vance

Question 29

Neglected Children

Answer 29

Anxiety, depression in adulthood

Question 30

Bullies

Answer 30

Most are boys of high status (physically/relationally aggressive)

Question 31

Victims

Answer 31

Passive when reaction is expected, give in, lack defenders, inhibited temperament, frail, and overprotective parents

Question 32

Wally is aggressive to other kids and does poorly in school. He is:

Answer 32

Rejected-Aggressive

Question 33

Gender Typing

Answer 33

Ex. girls can't do math or sports | Ex. males and females can be nurses

Question 34

Gender Identity

Answer 34

Boys = masculine traits and Girls = feminine traits

Question 35

Which child would struggle with parental divorce?

Answer 35

Adolescents

Question 36

What is a secondary sex characteristic?

Answer 36

Breast growth

Question 37

Off time puberty is most difficult for:

Answer 37

1) Early maturing girls | 2) Late maturing boys

Question 38

Propositional Thought

Answer 38

4 card problem

Question 39

Parts of Formal Operational Thought

Answer 39

1) Abstract thought 2) Loosened from present (ex. daydreaming) 3) More "what ifs" 4) Hypothetico-deductive/scientific reasoning

Question 40

What about Piaget's Pendulum affects the arc of the swing?

Answer 40

The length of the string

Question 41

Adolescent Egocentrisim - David Elkind

Answer 41

1) Imaginary Audience 2) Personal fable ("you wouldn't understand" / talent they don't have) 3) Invincibility fable (it won't happen to me)

Question 42

Erikson: Identity vs Role Confusion

Answer 42

1) Identity Achievement 2) Moratorium 3) Foreclosure 4) Negative Identity 5) Diffusion

Question 43

Exploring options and taking time to make decisions

Answer 43

Moratorium

Question 44

Accept what you've been taught to believe or do

Answer 44

Foreclosure - authoritarian parents - Religion

Question 45

Rebellion/acting out (sexually, drugs, dilinquent, etc.); can stay or flip

Answer 45

Negative Identity

Question 46

No questions asked/drain on society/eh to eh job

Answer 46

Diffusion | - apathetic with neglectful parents