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29 Cards in this Set
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During middle childhood, children add about _______ inches in height and _______ pounds in weight each year.
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2-3 inches, 5 pounds
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List two factors that account for unusual flexibility of movement in middle childhood.
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Ligaments are not yet firmly attatched to the bones, and increasing muscle tissue.
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About _______ percent of Canadian children and _______ percent of American children are obese.
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15% and 16%
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How do both heredity and environment contribute to childhood obesity?
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Heredity: accounts only for a tendency to gain weight.
Environment: lack of knowledge, high fat, low cost, and family stress, or malnourished early in life. |
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The most common chronic illness, representing the most frequent cause of school absence and childhood
hospitalization, is ______________. |
Diabetes
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The average American school-age child gets only _______ minutes of physical education a week, while the average
Canadian child gets about _______ hours a week. |
20 min, 2 hours
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How can physical education programs reach the least physically fit children?
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change content of programs, make them enjoyable, informed games.
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During Piaget’s concrete operational stage, thought is far more _____________, _____________, and
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logical, flexible, and organized.
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Ordering items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight.
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Seriation
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Awareness of classification hierarchies and the ability to focus on relationsbetween a general and two specific categories at the same time
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Classification
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Focusing on several aspects of a problem and relating them rather thancentering on just one
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Decentration
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Thinking through a series of steps and then mentally reversing irection,returning to the starting point
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Reversability
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Describe transitive inference, and provide an example of this ability.
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Concrete operational child's ability to seriate mentally. Example: Line sticks shortest to longest.
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Because organization and elaboration combine items into ______________________, they permit children to holdon to much more information.
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Meaningful chunks
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Explain how extensive knowledge and use of memory strategies support one another by the end of the school years.
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Experts in one area highly motivated: unsuccesful children fail to ask.
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What evidence suggests that children learn best with a mixture of whole language and phonics instruction?
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Learning the realtionship between letters and sounds enables children to decipher words they have never seen before.
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School-age children acquire basic math facts through a combination of what types of activities?
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Frequent practice, reasoning about number concepts, ans teaching that conveys effective strategies.
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How does Sternberg’s theory help explain cultural differences in IQ?
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Mental tests can easily underestimate and overlook the intelligent strengths of some children especially ethic minorities.
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List Gardner’s eight independent intelligences.
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1. Linguistic
2. Logico-mathematical 3. Musical 4. Spatial 5. Bodily kinesthetic 6. Naturalist 7. interpersonal 8. intrapersonal |
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Cite several benefits associated with constructivist classrooms.
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Encourages students to construct their own knowledge.
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Explain the difference between mainstreaming and full inclusion.
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Mainstreaming- regular school for half a day.
Full inclusion- regular school all day. |
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A large number of mainstreamed students have ______________, or great difficulty with one or more aspects of learning, usually reading. As a result, their achievement is considerably behind what would be expected on the basis of their IQ.
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Learning disabilities
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A greater than 20% increase over average body weight, based on an individual's age, sex, and physical build.
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Obesity
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The friendly chasing and playing is called ____. It emerges in the preschool years and peaks in middle school
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Rumble-and-tumble play
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_____- creating a relationship or shared meaning between two or more pieces of information that are not members of the same category. Ex: fish and pipe, fish smoking the pipe.
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Elaboration
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___, the process of continuously monitoring progress towards a goal, checking outcomes, and redirecting unsuccessful efforts.
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Cognitive self-regulation
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Displaying exceptional intellectual strengths.
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Gifted
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Is the ability to produce work that is original yet appropriate- something others have not thought of that is useful in some way.
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Creativity
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Outstanding performance in a specific field.
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Talent
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