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Middle Childhood Development Ages 6-11 , Specific Learning Disorder-a…

- - - - Self-care is more apparent as well as being self-sufficient
      - Brain maturation allows the child to focus more with any task without fidgeting
      - Senior tooth tooth beings to make visits as the child begins to lose baby teeth to make room for the adult chompers.
      - Children of this age enjoy routine and healthy habits
      - Exercise not only improves physical health and reduces depression but may also improve academic achievement.
      - Selective Attention-the ability to concentrate on some stimuli while ignoring others.
      - Reaction time-The time it takes to respond to a stimulus,either physically (with a reflexive movement such as an eye blink) or cognitively (without a thought)
      - Playing games teaches cooperation, problem solving, and respect for teammates and opponents of many backgrounds
  - - - correlates with asthma, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol
- - - - Intelligence-the ability to learn and understand various aspects of life, traditionally focused on reading and math, and more recently on the arts, movement, and social interactions.
      - Achievement test-a measure of mastery of proficiency in reading, mathematics, writing, science, or some other subject.
      - Multiple Intelligence-the idea that human intelligence is composed of a varied set of abilities rather than a single all-encompassing one.
- - - - a broad body of knowledge in a particular subject, makes it easier to remember and understand related new information
      - Past experience, current opportunity, and personal motivation
    - - Cognitive control-metacognition (thinking about thinking) and metamemory (knowing about memory)
      - these processes allow a person to step back from the specifics of learning and thinking and consider more general goals and strategies