middle childhood
(noun)
It is the school age and begins at around seven or eight.
Examples of middle childhood in the following topics:
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Childhood
- Childhood has been constructed in different ways over time, though modern childhood is often defined by play, learning and socializing.
- Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence.
- In developmental psychology, childhood is divided up into the developmental stages of toddlerhood (learning to walk), early childhood (play age), middle childhood (school age), and adolescence (puberty through post-puberty).
- In most western societies, middle childhood begins at around age seven or eight, approximating primary school age and ends around puberty, which typically marks the beginning of adolescence.
- Evaluate the importance of childhood (early, middle and adolescence) in terms of socialization and acceptance in society
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Dividing the lifespan
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Dimensions of Human Development
- They are characterized by prenatal development, toddler, early childhood, late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and old age.
- In late childhood, intelligence is demonstrated through logical and systematic manipulation of symbols related to concrete objects.
- Middle adulthood generally refers to the period between ages 40 to 60.
- During this period, middle-aged adults experience a conflict between generativity and stagnation.
- Analyze the differences between the various stages of human life - prenatal, toddler, early and late childhood, adolescence, early and middle adulthood and old age
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Pioneer Women
- Childhood on the American frontier is contested territory among academics.
- Historians Katherine Harris, in Long Vistas: Women and Families on Colorado Homesteads (1993), and Elliott West, in Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier (1989), write that a rural upbringing allowed children to break loose from urban hierarchies of age and gender, promoted family interdependence, and in the end, produced children who were more self-reliant, mobile, adaptable, responsible, independent, and in touch with nature than their urban or eastern counterparts.
- Pamela Riney-Kehrberg takes a middle position in Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest (2005).
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The Life Course
- In a more general reading, human life is seen as often divided into various age spans such as infancy, toddler, childhood, adolescence, young adult, prime adulthood, middle age, and old age .
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The Health of Infants and Children
- Childhood mortality is high in developing countries where malnutrition, infectious diseases, and unsanitary conditions are widespread.
- In the 1980's, the United States increased funding for maternal and childhood health programs.
- Even with the great advances in childhood health that have occurred in recent decades, many health problems still afflict infant and child populations.
- The majority of these occur in low and middle income countries.
- The World Health Organization has estimated that about 1.5 million children under age 5 years continue to die annually from diseases that are preventable via the administration of vaccines, making up approximately 20% of overall childhood mortality.
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Cognitive Development in Adulthood
- In fact, research suggests that adult cognitive development is a complex, ever-changing process that may be even more active than cognitive development in infancy and early childhood (Fischer, Yan, & Stewart, 2003).
- Unlike our physical abilities, which peak in our mid-20s and then begin a slow decline, our cognitive abilities remain relatively steady throughout early and middle adulthood.
- Two forms of intelligence—crystallized and fluid—are the main focus of middle adulthood.
- Fluid intelligence, on the other hand, is more dependent on basic information-processing skills and starts to decline even prior to middle adulthood.
- Review the milestones of cognitive development in early and middle adulthood
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Cultural and Societal Influences on Child Development
- Culture plays an important role in influencing childhood development, and what is considered "normal" varies greatly from one culture to the next.
- Race and other identities are often sites of discrimination and oppression in societies; as such, they can have a tremendous impact on childhood development.
- All of these societal factors intersect and interact to influence a child's development, so much so that a child from a middle-class white family has many more opportunities than a child from a lower-income family of color.
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Socially Constructed Interpretations of Aging
- ., Chad) or in areas within a given society where violence and / or other means of "early" death are common, one could be considered "old" or "middle-aged" by her mid-twenties, whereas in countries and social settings with longer lifespans (e.g., Japan) and lower levels of "early" death, mid-twenties is still considered young-adulthood.
- Likewise, the idea of childhood being an age of innocence when children should be kept from adult worries and spend their time pursuing education and recreating is only widely held in highly developed countries and is a relatively recent invention, following the industrial revolution and the introduction of child-labor laws.
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Theoretical Perspectives on Childhood Socialization
- Theories of childhood socialization and development study the elements of the cognitive and social development that occur in childhood.
- These theories seek to understand why childhood is a unique period in one's life and the elements of the cognitive and social development that occur in childhood.
- This chapter seeks to give a brief introduction to various theoretical perspectives on childhood.
- One of the most widely applied theories of childhood is Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
- His approach to childhood development has been embraced by schools, and the pedagogy of preschools in the United States.