1. PSYC 1120 Day 17 Grade School and Adolescence

2. Agenda Return tests and discuss Final chance to give book reports
Discuss growth issues in grades school and adolescence
Learning Disabilities
Begin film: FAT City Workshop

3. Book Reviews

4. STAGE THEORISTS Grade School to Adolescence
PIAGET
From Preoperational to Concrete Operational thought to Formal Operational thought
ERIKSON
From Initiative versus Guilt to Industry versus Inferiority to
Identity versus Role Confusion
FREUD From Phallic to Latency to Genital

5. Ages 7-11 according to Piaget: Concrete Operational Thought
less egocentric
able to reverse operations and decenter
can conserve, but development is uneven
literal thinking; uneven ability to use abstractions or make hypotheses
change must be able to see or imagine events

6. Cognitive Development
Memory improves
Children begin developing memory- aiding strategies
metamemory - knowledge of one’s own memory processes
Mnemonic devices

7. Exceptional Needs Learning disabilities Dyslexia Dyscalcula Dysgraphia
Dysnomia
ADD/ADHD

8. Discrepancy Criterion
Aptitude and performance are more than 2 years different
aptitude testing – usually I.Q
achievement testing
raw score (percent of total possible)
percentile (compared to reference population or all others who took the test at a given time)

9. Home schooling
Learning disabilities

10. Film
FAT City Workshop

12. You saw a couple in an intimate pose, right
You saw a couple in an intimate pose, right? Interestingly, research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such a scenario. What they WILL see, however, is the nine dolphins in the picture!

13. Biological Development
Weight
boys and girls equal at 8-9
girls become heavier and stay so into adolescence (age 14-15)
Nutritional issues
Diet high in fat, sugar and salt

14. Obesity in Grade School Children
Most children who are obese will become obese adults
Caused by both genetic and environmental factors
Social problems
Television viewing
Lack of exercise becomes vicious cycle

16. Omaha Public Schools’ Policy

17. Old

19. Plan a school lunch menu
Plan a healthy school hot lunch for a grade school aged child and for a middle or high school student
Plan a healthy school sack lunch for the same two groups
Be creative with these lunches – think outside the box (or the bun) to add variety to the child’s menu.
What can be done to encourage children to consume full lunches at school?
How can parents be involved?
Consider a full day on the pyramid worksheet (see next entry on “useful links”) – your lunch should include at least 1/3 of the recommended portions

20. What can be done to help obese grade school children?1. 2. 3. 4.

21. Perhaps these links might be helpful in completing this assignment.

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Or do your own web search. Bring ideas and possible other resources with you to class on Tuesday.

23. Adolescence

24. Describing adolescence
The bridge between childhood and adulthood
G. Stanley Hall-- period of storm and stress
Encompasses all domains: biosocial, cognitive and social-emotional

25. Puberty How can you tell when it begins?
What interpersonal issues may arise?
What should you do to prepare your child?
(How well were you prepared?)

26. Need for sex education
Where do children/teens get their information? Allgeir study: most informative source

27. Allgeir results School courses Mother
Printed matter (books, pamphlets, Internet, etc.)
Peers
Father
Boy Friend or Girl Friend

28. Puberty Review sequence of puberty
Compare development of boys to development of girls
Consequences of growth spurt

29. Sequence of Puberty: Males
Initial appearance of pubic hair
Growth of the testes and penis
First ejaculation
A peak in the growth spurt
Voice deepening
Beard development
Completion of pubic hair growth

30. Sequence of Puberty: Females
Beginning of breast development
Initial pubic hair
The growth spurt
Widening of the hips
Menarche
Completion of pubic hair and breast development

31. Sexual Characteristics
Primary - directly related to the sex organs menarche nocturnal emissions growth of penis ovulation

32. Sexual Characteristics
Secondary - others related to sexual maturity; sex hormones breast development change of voice face and body hair pubic hair

33. Assignment Finish FAT City Discuss School lunches Activity
Discuss Adolescence
Hand out Take Home Test #3 on Thursday – due February 17