Psyc 230 7-8 – Flashcards
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• When comparing the rate of growth for children from ages 6 to 11, one notices that children:
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have fewer fatal diseases or accidents than at any other period in life
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• Due to earlier diagnosis and treatment, chronic health conditions, such as hearing impairments and anemia, are now _____ less frequent in middle childhood compared to two decades ago.
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half as
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• Today, children who are in the middle childhood stage of development are experiencing better physical health than they did decades ago. Which is a factor in the improved physical health of children?
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wash their hands, special camps to learn self-care,
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• The health habits that children develop during the middle childhood years are:
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better than the habits they had a few generations ago
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• What is a benefit of physical activity for kids?
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-better overall health -less obesity -improved problem solving abilities
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• One problem about athletic sports leagues is that:
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children from low-SES families or with disabilities are less likely to benefit from them because they typically are not involved
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• The ratio between a person's height and weight is expressed as:
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Body Mass Index (BMI)
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• Which problem is often seen in obese children?
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asthma, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol
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• Madeline is 9 years old and considered obese. While her parents acknowledge that they could adopt a healthier lifestyle, they blame genetics for her weight problem. How many genes are estimated to influence Madeline's weight?
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more than 200 genes affect weight, but genes change little from one generation to the next
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• Asthma is a disorder caused by
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several aspects of modern like (carpets, pollution, house pets), or hygiene hypothesis (problems with the immune system developing) BUT THERE IS NO SINGLE KNOWN CAUSE
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• Since 1980 the rate of childhood asthma in the United States has:
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tripled
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• Better ventilation in schools and homes, less pollution, fewer antibiotics, and better medical diagnosis would be considered:
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Primary Prevention
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• An asthmatic child gets shots in the doctor's office during an asthma attack. This is a ______ level of prevention.
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tertiary
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• Seamus is very talented at drawing and obsessive about details when drawing pictures. His speech is close to normal, but he tends to shy away from other children and is awkward when trying to relate to others. Which diagnosis would BEST fit Seamus's behavior?
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High-functioning
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• What is a sign of autistic spectrum disorder?
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1. problems in social interaction and the social use of language 2. restricted, repetitive, patterns of behavior
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• In 1975 the Education of All Handicapped Children Act stipulated that children with special needs must be educated in the:
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least restrictive environment (LRE)
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• Maria has dyslexia. Maria is taught in the regular classroom, where she has her own reading tutor for part of the day. This is an example of:
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intrusion class
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• What is the latest educational strategy in the United States for children who are below average in achievement to receive special help?
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response to intervention (RTI)
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• The practice of providing special educational opportunities to children with special needs or those who are academically gifted:
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varies country from country. For example In china, students who are academically gifted are not treated differently than other students.
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the legal and genetic relationships among relatives living in the same home, includes nuclear family, extended family, stepfamily, and so on.
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family structure
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the way a family works to meet the needs of its members
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family function
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• In a typical military family, income is _____ and _____ is absent.
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high; parent
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• The most common type of family for children in the United States is the:
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two parent
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• Compared with nuclear families, extended families typically:
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includes nonparental adults like grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc
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• The percentage of school-age children that live in single-parent households is:
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31%
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• About _____ of school-age children live in a two-parent family.
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55%
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• While 41 percent of all U.S. births were to single mothers in 2010, the number of children who grow up in a household with a single mother who never marries is:
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13%
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• The happiest time in a marriage is:
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right after the wedding, before the children are born
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• In the United States the age of people at their first marriage:
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increasing
