Lifespan Development Exam 2 Questions and Answers Solved 100% Correct
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Lifespan Development
escence - ANSWER-10-13 years
Physical Growth in Early Childhood - ANSWER-loss of baby fat, more slender, body proportions become more adult like
Physical Growth in Middle Childhood - ANSWER-slow and steady but growing never stops
Malnutrition is a leading cause of mortality in - ANSWER-DEV...
Lifespan Development Exam 2 Questions and
Answers Solved 100% Correct
Preschool Years - ANSWER-3-6 years old
Middle Childhood - ANSWER-6-adolescents
Adolescence - ANSWER-10-13 years
Physical Growth in Early Childhood - ANSWER-loss of baby fat, more slender, body
proportions become more adult like
Physical Growth in Middle Childhood - ANSWER-slow and steady but growing never
stops
Malnutrition is a leading cause of mortality in - ANSWER-DEVELOPING world
Childhood Obesity - ANSWER-body weight that is 20% or MORE of the average weight
for a given age and height
Today's Obesity Rates - ANSWER-17% (1 in 3 children in poverty are obese)
Action items from CDC - ANSWER-increase physical activity
increase fruit and veggie intake
reduce energy-dense food and sugar consumption
increase breastfeeding initiation and duration
Illness among preschoolers - ANSWER-generally a time of good health for US
preschoolers...develop empathy
Injuries - ANSWER-children are twice as likely to die from injuries than illness in the
preschool years
Injury Prone - ANSWER-high levels of physical activity, curiosity, lack of cognitive
development=lack of judgment, boys more than girls, optimistic bias, less supervised
Largest Risk - ANSWER-unintentional injuries
7.3/100,000 - ANSWER-deaths from unintentional injuries
Synaptic Blooming and Pruning - ANSWER-increased lateralization
gender and culture differences emerge
corpus collusum becomes thicker
, Myelination - ANSWER-increased attention and concentration (executive)
hippocampus myelination: increased memory abilities
cerebellum: increased control over movement
key for FINE motor development
Prefrontal Cortex - ANSWER-frontal lobes -- key and related to sophisticated
information processing, key in forming the ability to increase attention and concentration
(executive control)
Brain becomes more _______ and less _______ - ANSWER-organized ; plastic
Relationship between DIET and EXERCISE - ANSWER-less exercise(more tv), poorer
diet(greater food intake) ; more exercise(less tv), better diet(less food intake)
Piaget's Preoperational Stage - ANSWER-stage is marked by a decrease in reliance on
sensorimotor activity for cognitive development
Centration - ANSWER-children concentrate on one aspect of a stimulus and ignore
other aspects
Egocentric Thought - ANSWER-children are unable to take the perspective of others --
not in a selfish way
Conservation - ANSWER-children are unable to understand that quantity is unrelated to
physical arrangement
Animism - ANSWER-ascribing lifelike qualities to inanimate objects
Intuitive Thought - ANSWER-when you know something about the world, but you don't
know how it is you know it
Concrete Operational Thought - ANSWER-decentering, logical operations are used to
solve concrete problems
Decentering - ANSWER-less egocentric thinking, the ability to take multiple aspects of a
problem into account at the same time
Vygotsky - ANSWER-social and cultural aspects of learning
ZPD - ANSWER-level at which a child can almost, but not fully, perform a task
independently; but can do so with the assistance of someone more competent
Scaffolding - ANSWER-support for learning and problem solving that encourages
independence and growth -- Every Good Boy Does Fine
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