Middle Childhood

4. Around age 11 young people enter the _______ operational stage, in which they develop the capacity for abstract, systematic scientific thinking (Piaget)
5. _______ is the third leading cause of death among American youths.
11. A form of supervision in which parents exercise general oversight while permitting children to be in charge of moment-by-moment decision making.
12. The psychological conflict of middle childhood is industry vs. _________ which is resolved positively when children develop a sense of competence at useful skills and tasks. (Erikson)
13. Around age _________, children become aware that they can experience more than one emotion at a time.
14. Gender__________ is the increased gender stereotyping of attitudes and behavior, and movement toward a more traditional gender identity.

1. The most common psychological problem of adolescence is __________; if allowed to continue, it seriously impairs social, academic, and vocational functioning.
2. Emotional self-________ is a feeling of being in control of their emotional experience.
3. Often several cliques with similar values form a larger, more loosely organized group called a_______.
6. This hormone causes a girl’s body to take on feminine proportions, fat to accumulate, and the menstrual cycle to begin.
7. _________________ parenting and encouragement from teachers predict high self-esteem in adolescence, while teenagers whose parents are critical and insulting have unstable and generally low self-esteem.
8. In middle childhood, the amount of time children spend with _________ declines dramatically.
9. Adolescents often do not get enough _____. This may cause a depressed mood,less achievement in school, and more high-risk behaviors.
10. __________ affects the overall growth of the body and the maturation of sexual characteristics.