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Human Development (College)
Human Development Test Review
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Medical
Undergraduate 1
12/02/2014

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Term
Compare the growth rate of middle childhood to early childhood
Definition
Not as fast
Term
Percentile for being overweight and obese?
Definition
Overweight: 85th
Obese: 95th
Term
What BMI is and stands for?
Definition
BMI: Body Mass Index
weight/square of height
Term
What has caused a decrease of children playing outside in neighborhoods?
Definition
Stranger danger
Term
Why has there been a decline in exercise at schools?
Definition
Focus more on education, core learning.
Term
What Paiget stage middle children are in and what they can do?
Definition
Concrete operational
Term
What is the Information-Processing Theory often compared to?
Definition
Computer analysis of data
Term
What is selective attention?
Definition
Ability to concentrate on some stimuli while ignoring others
Term
What is metacognition?
Definition
Evaluate a task to determine how to best accomplish it
Term
What is achievement?
Definition
Accomplishment
Term
What is the Flynn Effect?
Definition
Higher IQ over the years
Term
What is ADHD and its main symptom?
Definition
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
-Difficulty concentrating
Term
What is a learning disability?
Definition
marked deficit
Term
What ERickson stage are middle children in?
Definition
industry and inferiority
Term
What Freud stage are middle children in?
Definition
Latency
Term
What is social comparison?
Definition
Assess ones abilities against others
Term
What is working memory?
Definition
Short term
Term
Compare confidence levels of school children to preschoolers?
Definition
Lower because older school children are conscious of failure, and insecurity.
Term
What is resilience?
Definition
Capacity to adapt well to stress
Term
Nuclear Family:
Definition
Mom, dad, biological children
Term
Blended family:
Definition
Mom, dad, (or step parents) and biological/unbiological children
Term
What is the key word that defines bullying?
Definition
REPEATED
Term
What does preconventional morality emphasize?
Definition
Rewards a punishment
Term
What does portconventional morality emphasize?
Definition
Moral principles
Term
What can cause early onset of puberty?
Definition
Stress, weight, gender, genes
Term
What can reduce the risk of an adolescent developing an eating disorder?
Definition
Eating dinner with the family as a group
Term
What percent of STI's are in the age group of 15-24?
Definition
50%
Term
Why do adolescents have such passion and commitment to nontraditional values?
Definition
The limbic system. They think with emotion, not logic.
Term
What is adolescent egocentrism?
Definition
Young people focus on themselves
Term
what is Personal fable?
Definition
belief of self being more unique than others
Term
What is the invincibility fable?
Definition
Person can not be overcome or harmed
Term
What is imaginary audience?
Definition
Belief that others are watching you/judging you
Term
Identify formal operational thought and hypothetical thinking:
Definition
Hypothetical: Possibilities/could happen
Formal Operational: Logical thinking
Term
Identify formal operational thought and hypothetical thinking:
Definition
Hypothetical: Possibilities/could happen
Formal Operational: Logical thinking
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