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| Compare the growth rate of middle childhood to early childhood |
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| Percentile for being overweight and obese? |
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Overweight: 85th
Obese: 95th |
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| What BMI is and stands for? |
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BMI: Body Mass Index
weight/square of height |
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| What has caused a decrease of children playing outside in neighborhoods? |
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| Why has there been a decline in exercise at schools? |
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| Focus more on education, core learning. |
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| What Paiget stage middle children are in and what they can do? |
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| What is the Information-Processing Theory often compared to? |
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| Computer analysis of data |
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| What is selective attention? |
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| Ability to concentrate on some stimuli while ignoring others |
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| Evaluate a task to determine how to best accomplish it |
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| What is the Flynn Effect? |
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| What is ADHD and its main symptom? |
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Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
-Difficulty concentrating |
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| What is a learning disability? |
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| What ERickson stage are middle children in? |
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| What Freud stage are middle children in? |
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| What is social comparison? |
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| Assess ones abilities against others |
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| Compare confidence levels of school children to preschoolers? |
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| Lower because older school children are conscious of failure, and insecurity. |
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| Capacity to adapt well to stress |
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| Mom, dad, biological children |
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| Mom, dad, (or step parents) and biological/unbiological children |
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| What is the key word that defines bullying? |
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| What does preconventional morality emphasize? |
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| What does portconventional morality emphasize? |
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| What can cause early onset of puberty? |
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| Stress, weight, gender, genes |
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| What can reduce the risk of an adolescent developing an eating disorder? |
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| Eating dinner with the family as a group |
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| What percent of STI's are in the age group of 15-24? |
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| Why do adolescents have such passion and commitment to nontraditional values? |
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| The limbic system. They think with emotion, not logic. |
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| What is adolescent egocentrism? |
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| Young people focus on themselves |
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| belief of self being more unique than others |
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| What is the invincibility fable? |
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| Person can not be overcome or harmed |
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| What is imaginary audience? |
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| Belief that others are watching you/judging you |
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| Identify formal operational thought and hypothetical thinking: |
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Hypothetical: Possibilities/could happen
Formal Operational: Logical thinking |
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| Identify formal operational thought and hypothetical thinking: |
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Hypothetical: Possibilities/could happen
Formal Operational: Logical thinking |
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