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The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition suggests that young children should get no more than % of their total calories from fat and less than % of the total from saturated fat. |
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Major factors affecting the incidence of obesity among children include tendencies, the child's , and . |
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Anthropologists believe that play is universal and evolved to provide practice in survival skills. Today it not only provides , but also plays a role in establishing patterns of dominance. |
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Medical conditions are either –occasional, short-term conditions such as infections, allergies, and warts–or –those that last for at least three months, such as asthma or AIDS. |
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While approximately 23,000 children suffered serious injuries in 1998 as a result of accidents, 88% could be reduced by using . |
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Around age 7, children in the stage of and can now use mental operations to solve concrete problems. Their thinking becomes , but not . |
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The concrete operational child’s ability to categorize includes , the ability to order items along a dimension; , understanding the relationship between two objects by knowing the relationship of each to a third object; and , understanding the relationship between a whole and its parts. |
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The three memory stores in the information processing model of memory are memory, the first stage, which is brief and temporary; memory, which is for the short term storage of information actively being processed; and memory, which holds an unlimited amount of information for very long periods. |
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Aisha's father told her to write things down that she wants to remember, but usually Aisha tries to remember things just by repeating them over and over again. Aisha’s father is suggesting the use of memory aids, but Aisha uses . |
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Although some writers (e.g., Jensen) attribute ethnic difference sin IQ to factors, there is no direct evidence to support this. Some critics of IQ tests attribute these differences to , a tendency to include questions that use vocabulary, information, or skills more familiar to some cultural groups than to others. Unfortunately, neither nor tests have been able to eliminate these problems. |
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The three elements of Sternberg’s theory of intelligence are , or analytical ability, , or creative ability, and , or practical ability. The measures these three sets of ability in three domains: , , and . |
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The traditional approach to teaching children to read relies on the , or approach, which emphasizes decoding (or sound out) unfamiliar words. The approach being used more recently is the approach, which emphasizes visual retrieval and use of contextual clues. |
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The policy of whereby children are automatically promoted in school even if they do not meet academic standards is controversial. Many educators believe the best solution to a high failure rate is to intervene children fail. |
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Common learning problems seen in childhood include , significantly subnormal cognitive functioning; , a developmental disorder in which reading achievement is substantially lower than predicted by a child’s age or IQ; and , a syndrome characterized by persistent inattention and distractibility, impulsivity, low tolerance for frustration, and inappropriate overactivity. |
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