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By age 12 how much have females attained of their adult height

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93%

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By age 12 how much have males attained of their adult height

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84%

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Which gender is ahead in terms of growth

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Females

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What are sex differences in skeletal and muscular maturation

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Females are better coordinated but slower and somewhat weaker than males

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How does the brain develop at this age

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Further myelinization in the frontal lobes (logic and planning) and reticular formation (selective attention becomes possible)

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What happens to health promotion at this age

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Get’s lost at this age

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What are some health promotion aspects at this age

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Immunization HPV and Hep B if you missed it at infancy
Injury( injury related mortality increases with age and is higher for males than females)
Motor vehicle more than 1/2 of fatal injuries are due to motor vehicle crashes ( next most common is drowning)

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How many canadians between the age of 5-11 have unhealthy body weights

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1/4

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How much are females and males considered to be overweight at 5-11

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14% males
19% females

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How much of males and females are considerd to be obese at 5-11

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8% males
9% females

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What are some factors that result in obesity

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Genetic predisposition
Epigenetic modifications set early in life
Enviornment
Lower ses is a higher risk

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Why is weight loss risky in this group

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Requries specalized diets developed by nutritional experts and increased exercise (they are grwoing if you decrease caloric intake it can be bad

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What are obesity risk factors

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Overweight parents
Larger size for gestation age at birth
Early onset of being overweight (age of 5 and under)

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What is the correlation between food insecurity and obesity

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Obesity isnt an excess issue
If women are more likely to be food insecure and overweight goes down into families
Stronger for women
Higher # of food insecure children
Canada doesnt have food programs at our school
Children can’t learn mazo

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How many people in the 10 provinces lived in a food insecure household and how many children

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18.4% and 1.8 million children

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What are some new cognitive skills that have developed at this age

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Horizontal decalage (apply new cognitive skills to all kinds of problems learn something apply it to different things)
Emergence of problems solving rules from experince and trial and error ( not necessarily age linked)
Vertical declarge ( same skill to different contexts)

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What is the relationship between horizontal decalage and conservation

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Conservation applies to just matter ( matter can change in apperance without changing in quality) whereas horizontal decalage is broader and can apply to any cognitive function

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What is automaticity at this age

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Ability to recall information from long-term memory without using short term memory capacity
Riding a bike
Shoelaces
Orginzation memory

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What is expertise

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More knowledge an individual has about a topic the more efficient thier information processing system will work advanced skills in one area does not improve general levels of memory or reasoning

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What is elaboration in information processing

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Finding shared meaning or a common referent for two or more things that need to be remebered

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What is mnemonic

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A devise to assist memory (every good boy deserves fudge)

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What is systematic searching

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Scanning ones memory for the whole domain in which a peice of information might be found

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How many words do kids learn per year at this tage

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5000-10000

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When do kids start to realize there is structure to words

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8 to 9 figuring out relationships between whole categories of words such as between adjectives and adverbs or between adjectives and nouns

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What is the balanced approach to literacy
Reading instruction that combines explicit phonics (sound letters make) instruction with other strategies for helping children acquire literacy
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Why is it hard to idenitfy poor readers
Kids will start to memorize and strategies teachers assume they are good readers some are really struggling to read
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What are the 3 components to emotional intelligence
Awareness of our own emotions; ability to express our emotions appropriately, capacity to channel our emotions into the pursuit of worthwhile goals
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Does emotional intelgience need to be taught
YES
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What is an assumption about EI that is not true
That everyone can learn it It isn't an inborn talent its from education
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What is achievement vs aptitude
Achievment asses specific information learned in school(midterm) and apitude is the ability to learn (cell project)
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What is wrong with achievment test
they may not measure what child learns in school they could have learned that skill at home
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What are sex differences in education and what does it say about our school system
Females tend to do better in all subjects but espically science and math This can be damaging towards boys as this is geared towards females result in an enviormental factor It is the way that we are taught you learn to sit down and be quiet
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Why are there group differences
Could be due to learning style-
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What is analytical learning style
Tendency to focus on the details of the task- sutis the school system
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What is relational learning style
tendency to ignore the details of the task in order to focus on the big picture
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What is the root cause of ADHD
It is unknown but twin studies suggest a genetic basis premature birth is a risk factor and it is not likely due to the environment, diet or brain damage
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What are some characteristics of ADHD
Higher activity level Lower ability to sustain attention and control impulses
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Why were kids misdiagonsed with ADHD
because they didnt just sit and fir into that tradtional mold
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What stage are we ate for Erikson
Industry vs inferiority Development of a child's sense of competence through mastery of culturally defined learning tasks
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What is the stage at for Bandura
Reciprocal Determinism The interaction of personal behavioural and environmental factors provides insight into the mechanisms that drive the development of self-efficacy Child can't read they act out teacher gets mad and the cycle continues behaviour environment all interact
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What is self concept like at 6-12
Child moves through the concrete operational periods, the psychological self becomes more complex more comparative less tied to external features and more centred on feelings and ideas more social comparssion happens
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What is self-esteem
The evaluation of ones own self worth compared to others
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What are trends with self esteem
Tends to be stable in short term but somewhat less so over periods of several years during middle childhoos and adolescnece
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What is growth mindset
Even if you struggle with certain skills your abilities are not set in stone what did you try today can improve through effect leraning and persistance
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What is learning
Just a set of faliures
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What is meaningulness
Children need to be more than just passive learners when teachers and children learn together share decisions and respect and trust one another children and teachers develop a stronger sense of who they are as humans in the world
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What is social cognition like at this age
Children have deceloped a much broader understanding of others than they possessed at the beginning Moral aspects of social relationships differences are good
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What is moral reasoning
The process of making judgments about the rightness or wrogness of specific acts(piaget)
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What is moral realism
The belief that rules are inflexible (first stage of moral development)
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What is moral relativism
Understnad that many rules can be changed through social agreement
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What are parental expectations
As sef regulation grows parents allow children more indpendence
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How do you parent for self regulation
Parents model self regulation behaviour, higher ecpectations + parental monitorning= greater self regulatory competence,
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What parenting style is associated with development of self regulation
Authoritavie
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When are patterns in self regulation observed
In all culture and by age 3
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What are male friendship groups like
Bigger and more accepting of newcomers More outdoor playe roam a larger area Focused on competiotion and dominance and higher levels of competition between pairs of friends than strangers
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What are female friendship groups like
More likely to play in paris or in small more exclusive groups More playtime indoors or near home or school more agreement more compliance and more self discolosure higher levels of competion between stranger that nfriends
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What happend with covid 19 and social skills
Kids lost there social skills and created a significant negative impact in the well being of individuals with deterioration in mental health
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What are the 3 groups of social status
popular rejected neglected
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What are the popular group like
attractive children, physical larger
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What about the rejected and neglected group
Different Shy children have few friends highly creative children are often rejected difficulty controlling their emotions can also be rejected in pairs
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What is social staus have an impact now
Childrens social behaviour seems to be more important than looks or remperment
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What are turn key kids
Children who are home by themselves after school for an hour or more Poorlya djusted in peer relationships and school performance Children younger than 10 dont have the right mindset to sense danger has the biggest impact on low income kids
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How many children had phones by 14
45%
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What are some disadvanges of having cell phones at a young age
Poorer sleep Increased anxiety and depression poor academic outcomes
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How many teens are receving sexts
1 in 4
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How many teens send sexts
1 in 7
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How many teens forward sexts without consent
1 in 10
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How many teens have had sexts sent forwared without ther consent
1 in 12
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What is short term learning at this age
Digrames Models Pcitures Analogies Fun
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What is long term learning at this age
role models responsibility

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