1. Human Growth and Development
Day #14
April 26, 2011
Human Growth and Development

2. Agenda Roll Call Begin grade school years Film: FAT City Workshop
Return tests

3. Who am I? *professional name
On your card, write your name and the date – Name the name of the mystery person:
For 3 points write his nom de plume*
for 3 more points his real name.
Submit.
*professional name

4. STAGE THEORISTS PIAGET
From Preoperational to Concrete Operational Thought
ERIKSON
From Initiative versus Guilt to Industry versus Inferiority
FREUD From Phallic to Latency

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. Measures of Average Mean – arithmetic average
Sum of all scores divided by the total number of scores
Median – midpoint in the distribution
Half of the scores fall above it and half fall below it
Mode – most frequently occurring score in the distribution

8. Standard Deviation from the Mean

9. Bimodal distribution
Skewed distribution

10. Intelligence
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is the ratio of mental age to chronological age MA
x = IQ
CA (multiplied by 100 to make it a whole number rather than a fraction)
Usually, IQ is measured by a score on an intelligence test (score = mental age)

11. I.Q. Normal Curve
Percentile rank – as if baseline were points from 1 – Where would a particular score rank in relation to all other scores?

12. Film
FAT City Workshop

13. Class Break
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14. Return tests

15. Assignment Be Reading Chapters 9 – 12 Grade School and Adolescence
Be Present in class book reviews on Thursday!
No excuses!