Part IV: Middle Childhood
Chapter 9
Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
Focus: Ann Bancroft, Polar Explorer
Aspects of Physical Development

•	Growth
•	Nutrition
•	Malnutrition
•	Obesity and Body Image
•	Motor Development

•	 Checkpoint: Can you…
•	Health and Safety 
•	Medical Problems
•	Vision and Hearing Problems
•	Asthma
•	HIV and AIDS

•	Accidental Injuries

Piagetian Approach: 
The Concrete Operational Child
How do school-age children’s thinking and moral reasoning differ from those of younger children?
Advances in Selected Cognitive Abilities During Middle Childhood
What’s Your View?
•	 Do you agree that intent is an important factor in morality? In what ways does the criminal justice system reflect or contradict this view?
Information Processing and Intelligence
•	Memory and Other Processing Skills
•	Basic Processes and Capacities
•	Metamemory: Understanding Memory
•	Mnemonics: Strategies for Remembering
•	Selective Attention
•	Information Processing and Piagetian Tasks
Information Processing and Intelligence
•	Psychometric Approach: Testing Intelligence
•	Traditional Group and Individual Tests
•	The IQ Controversy
•	Is There More Than One Intelligence?
•	Other New Directions in Intelligence Testing
Eight Intelligences, According to Gardner
Language and Literacy
•	Vocabulary, Grammar, and Syntax
•	Pragmatics: Knowledge about Communication
•	Literacy
•	Identifying Words
•	Comprehension
•	Writing
The Child in School
•	Entering First Grade
The Child in School
•	Influences on School Achievement
•	The Child: Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Academic Motivation
•	Parenting Practices
•	Socioeconomic Status
•	Teacher Expectations
•	The Educational System
•	The Culture
The Child in School
How do schools meet the needs of non-English-speaking children and those with learning problems?
The Child in School
•	Second Language Education
•	Children with Learning Problems
•	Mental Retardation
•	Learning Disabilities
•	Hyperactivity and Attention Deficits
•	Educating Children with Disabilities
The Child in School
•	Gifted Children
•	Identifying Gifted Children
•	The Lives of Gifted Children
•	Defining and Measuring Creativity
•	Educating Gifted Children
Digging Deeper
Children’s Understanding of Illness
Practically Speaking
The Homework Debate