Lifespan Developmental Psychology-Ch.6 Middle Childhood

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What is Reaction Time?

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The time needed for a person to respond to a particular stimulus.

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Describe infantile autism.

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Two primary symptoms. 1- Extreme isolation present from first year of life. 2- An obsessive insistence on preservation of sameness. They were very smart but obsessive and very few are warm hearted.

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What is dyslexia?

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A disability in reading.

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What is Dyscalcula?

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An unusual difficulty in math.

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What is mainstreaming?

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Putting kids with special needs in with other normal children rather than segregating the ones with extra needs.

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What is a resource room?

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Children will go during a special time to work on his particular problem.

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What is inclusion?

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The special needs children participate in a normal classroom with specialized individual instruction from their teacher trained in special needs teaching.

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Describe ADHD.

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A behavior problem characterized by excessive activity, an inability to concentrate, and impulsive, sometimes aggressive behavior.

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Define Gifted and Talented.

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Children who show high performance capabilities in areas such as intellectual functioning, creativity, artistic talent, leadership quality or other academic field.

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What are convergent thinkers?

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Responding in expected ways.

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What are divergent thinkers?

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Responding in unusual ways that could be misconstrued as uncooperative or disruptive.

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What is enrichment when talking about gifted persons school work?

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Giving them more challenging work while keeping them in the same classes as their peers.

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What is selective attention?

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The ability to concentrate on relevant information and ignore distractions.

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What is memory storage strategies and describe them?

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It allows information to be stored for later retrieval. 1. Rehearsal- Repeating the information to be remembered. 2. Reorganization- regrouping of information to make it memorable.

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What is automatization?

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The process in which familiar and well rehearsed mental activities become routine and automatic.

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What is Conservation and reversibility?

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conservation is the knowledge that objects can change but keep many original characteristics and reversibility is knowing that these changes can be reversed.

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What is reciprocity?

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The principle that a change in one dimension of an object can be compensated for by a change in another dimension.

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What is compensation?

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The principle that changes in one dimension can be offset by changes in another.

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What is Seriation?

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serial-order thinking: The process of making an orderly arrangement.

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What is classification?

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The process of organizing things into groups according to some property they have in common.

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What is pragmatics?

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The practical application of linguistic knowledge and improves in middle childhood.

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What are aptitude tests?

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They measure cognitive potential. (how well and quickly someone can learn a new subject). Eg. intelligent test or IQ test.

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What are the eight types of intelligence that Howard Gardner focused on?

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Linguistic, Logical-mathematical, musical, visual-spatial, body-kinesthetic, interpersonal communication, intrapersonal communication, and naturalistic.

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What is Linguistic intelligence?

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The ability to communicate through language.

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What is Logical-Mathematical intelligence?

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Analyze arguments and solve problems logically.Formal thought is required.

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What is Musical intelligence?

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Ability to compose, analyze or play music and to distinquish notes and tones within sounds.

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What is Visual-Spatial intelligence?

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Perceive and arrange objects in a situation, and mentally manipulate objects to determine how they would appear if moved. Requires concrete operational thought.

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What is Body-Kinesthetic intelligence?

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Ability to complete certain body movements or remember physical motion patterns.

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What is Interpersonal communication intelligence?

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Ability to function in social settings comfortably with an intuitive grasp of social communication.

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What is Intrapersonal intelligence?

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Ability to understand your own thought processes and emotional experiences and use them to assist in your understanding of others.

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What is Naturalistic intelligence?

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Ability to understand patterns withing nature and communicate or work well with animals.

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What is social cognition?

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The understanding of other people and groups.

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What is aggressive-rejected?

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Disliked because of aggressive behavior.

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What is Withdrawn-rejected?

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Disliked because of their withdrawn, angry style.

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What are the 4 forms of aggression?

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Instrumental aggression, reactive aggression, relational aggression, and bullying aggression.

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What is Instrumental aggression?

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Forceful behavior that is aimed at getting or keeping something.

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What is reactive aggression?

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Forceful behavior that is an angry retaliation.

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What is relational aggression?

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Forceful behavior that takes the forms of insults or social rejection.

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What is bullying aggression?

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Forceful behavior that takes the form of an unprovoked physical or verbal attack.

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What is the social learning theory?

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The examination of behavioral patterns that are developed in response to environmental factors.