PSY 203

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PSY 203

• Chapter 9
• Physical Cognitive Development in Middle
  Childhood

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Physical Development

• Height weight
• Nutrition
• Obesity
• Lose baby teeth (deciduous teeth)
• Motor skills

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Concrete Operational Stage (Piaget)

• Conservation
• Seriation
• Classification
• Reversibility

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Elementary School

• Multicultural education
• Success in school

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Intelligence Tests

• Binet-Simon Scale Alfred Binet
• Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test Alfred Binet
  Lewis Terman
• Wechsler Scales David Wechsler
• WPPSI-R (Wechsler Preschool Primary Scale of
  Intelligence, Revised)
• WISC-R (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,
  Revised)
• WAIS-R (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale,
  Revised)

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

• 100 average
• 70 or less mentally retarded
• Subaverage IQ
• Deficiencies in adaptive skills
• Originating before age 18
• 130 or above gifted

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General vs. Specific Intelligence

• Charles Spearmans g factor

• Howard Gardners theory of multiple intelligence
  (8 components)
• Robert Sternbergs triarchic theory of
  intelligence

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Gardners 8 IntelligencesSLIM N BIL

• Spatial
• Logical-mathematical
• Interpersonal
• Musical
• Naturalist
• Bodily-kinesthetic
• Intrapersonal
• Linguistic

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Sternbergs Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

1. Analytical
2. Creative
3. Practical

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Other Factors Relating to Intelligence

• Bilingualism
• EQ

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Children with Exceptional Needs

• Learning disabilities
• Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Mental retardation
• Gifted and talented