Developmental test 3 Middle to late childhood 04 02 2015 Ages 6 to 11 Body growth is very consistent Avg 11 year old height Girls are a little taller than boys girls begin to develop quickly Brain volume stabilizes however there is a lot of pruning and increasing neural connections Gross motor skills becomes much more coordinated and controlled Girls are better at fine motor skills at this age but boys are better at gross motor skills Children should get more than 1 hour a day of exercise Type 2 diabetes related to being overweight Number 1 cause of death is accidents of all types Number 2 cancer Number 3 cardiovascular Probably Figure 7 2 If you are disabled you have to have federal help from ages 3 to 21 14 received special education or related service physical therapy Special education There are multiple catergories blind deaf or intellectual disability Boys are 3 times more likely to be special ed Genetically more common Get referred more than boys because they are bad Dyscalculia Dyslexia Dysgraphia Problem with math General term for reading disability Really bad with writing Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Attention deficit o Know for sure when they are older Hyperactive impulsive o Know at about 2 years old Combined o Know at about 2 years old 1 20 people have this disorder Treated with medication and behavioral treatment Ritalin First and most researched Strattera Not a stimulate takes 10 days to get to the beneficial levels has to be taken every day regardless Best treatment is a combination of medication and behavioral treatment 4 to 9 times more often in boys than in girls o Boys are more venerable Kids are more likely to drop out of school substance use problems because of social problems and teenage problem Greatest improvement in their social interactions with theirs peers No definitive cause for it At the highest level is Asperger s syndrome o Usually very deficient in social skills with normal or enhanced At the lowest level severe autistic level Ex Rain Man mercury intelligence rising Bench marks of autism o Abnormal development of verbal and nonverbal communication skills o Delayed social skills in relating to other people Don t want to be touched o Lots of repetitive stuff Boys are 4 times more likely to have this than girls o Genetic factors likely play a role Shows up by 15 to 18 months have to see it before 36 months Autism 1975 Federal laws passed about special education 04 02 2015 PL 94 142 All public school have to provide FAPE Free and appropriate public education o Took 10 years for schools to begin to provide special education 1990 Law was rewritten not much was changed though Became IDEA Individual with disability education act 1997 Amended the program 2004 Changed the name IEP Individual education plan anyone who has special education must have a plan written for them every year LRE Least restrictive environment Want education to occur in the most mainstream place possible NMRC is very restrictive Inclusion Regular classroom for regular and special education kids o Very important now o As well as your same age peers If you have a learning disability and in a public school you don t automatically go into special education Not eligible for these programs unless your disability keeps you from being academically successful o Have to be failing to enter special education classes o Parents have to agree with it too o As well as having documented disabilities Piaget In middle to late childhood concert operational stage ages 7 11 o Perform mental operations with concrete objects o Can reverse things o Transitive property relationships between objects Information process Memory o No change in short term o Increase in long term Attention Executive functions behaviors Critical thinking Creative thinking o Children s ability to plan use strategy and control their own o Thinking reflectively and being able to evaluate the evidence o Being able to think in novel ways Convergent thinking o Produces 1 correct answer o Measured by standard intelligence tests o Ex colors of American flag Divergent thinking o Produces many answers to the same question IQ mean 100 SD 15 1 to 1 SD Normal or average IQ range 1 to 2 is high average 1 to 2 is low average 2 Gifted intelligence 2 Intellectual disability Ratio IQ Mental age Chronical age 100 04 02 2015 Standard bell curve percentages IQ Intelligence quotations Ability to solve problem learn from and adapt to everyday life Stanford Binet 1904 Developed for French orphans Mental Age Typical score that a child would learn on a test at a particular age Developed by Binet Wilhelm Stern Developed the formula for ratio IQ Deviation IQ Based on norms See how much your score deviates from the norms Average Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale V Still the main IQ test around In the fifth addition Wechsler Scale Developed by David Wechsler developed in 1930 3 forms o WAIS IV Wechsler adult intelligence scale 16 and older o WISC IV Wechsler school child 6 to 16 years old o WPPSI III Wechsler primary school and preschool 2 5 to 7 years old Always compared to people your exact same age down to the month Don t have to be born mentally retarded to be that way G factor General ability factor of intelligence Sternberg s triarchic theory Multiple intelligence theory o 3 types of intelligence Analytical Good with math and very organized Do very good in school Practical Common sense Do very well in the workplace Creative Often don t do good in school but would do good in the workplace Don t conform to rules Howard Gardner s Theory of multiple intelligence o 8 different dimensions of intelligence Know the 8 of them o Very hard to measure some of these S factor Very specific factor of intelligence Reaction range Range of ability that you are born with If you are from difficult circumstance you will be lower end of the range If you are from great circumstance you will be on the higher end of the range African and Hispanic people score 10 to 12 points lower than white people Because of socioeconomic classes Asian and Jewish people score higher than white people Flynn Effect As time past normal range of IQ has gotten higher because of technology Mild 55 to 70 Moderate 54 to 40 Severe 39 to 20 Profound below 19 Ch 8 Self esteem sense of worth Self regulation Children s vocabulary has of 14 000 at 6 and 40 000 at 11 Very aware of syntax Global evaluation of yourself Has to do with your image and your Ability to monitor and control your behavior