1. Human Growth and Development
Day 16
May 1, 2012
Industry versus Inferiority

2. Agenda for Class #16 Present book reviews
Follow-up film – “When Elephants Fight”
Present school nutrition activity
Grade School Cognitive and Social Development Issues

3. Book Reviews

4. FAT City Workshop Richard Lavoie
A child with a learning disability cannot try harder, pay closer attention, or improve motivation on their own; they need help to learn how to do those things.

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

6. Learning disabilities

7. Testing Aptitude tests measure potential for performance
IQ tests are probably best examples
Achievement tests measure what you have already learned or can do
California Achievement Tests (OPS) or Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED; ITBS)
Test #3 for PSYC 1120 coming up on Thursday!

8. Discrepancy Criterion
Aptitude and performance are more than 2 years different
aptitude testing
achievement testing
raw score (percent of total possible)
percentile (compared to reference pop.)

11. See handout for additional resources

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

13. What can be done to avoid waste of cafeteria food?
What goes in a good sack lunch?
Grade school
High school
Adults at work

14. Social and Cognitive Development
Erikson -- Industry versus Inferiority
Freud -- Latency
Piaget -- Concrete Operational Thinking
Reversibility
Conservation
Seriation
Classification
Consider the issue of fairness, i.e., FAT City
Role of the family in child development

15. Family Function
Family function: The way a family works to meet the needs of its members. Children need families to:
provide basic material necessities
encourage learning
help them develop self-respect
nurture friendships
foster harmony and stability

16. Family Structure
Family structure: The legal and genetic relationships among relatives living in the same home; includes nuclear family, extended family, stepfamily, and so on.
Nuclear family – no more than two generations
Parent(s) and children
Extended families – various generations with diversified family ties (aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, in-laws, etc.)

17. Families

18. Family Trouble
Dysfunctional family: A family that does not support all its members
Three factors increase the likelihood of dysfunction:
Low Income
Instability
Low Harmony

19. The Peer Group
Culture of children: The particular habits, styles, and values that reflect the set of rules and rituals that characterize children as distinct from adult society.
Fashion
Language
Peer culture

20. Bullies and Victims
Bullying: Repeated, systematic efforts to inflict harm through physical, verbal, or social attack on a weaker person.
Bully-victim: Someone who attacks others and who is attacked as well
Also called a provocative victim because he or she does things that elicit bullying, such as stealing a bully’s pencil

21. Roll Call http://www.quia.com/rd/105165.html

26. Assignment Be reading chapters on Grade School and Adolescence
Test # 3 will be distributed on Thursday 5/3 and will be due on Thursday 5/10!