PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Precocious Puberty, Cyberbullying, Major Depressive Disorder
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Speech, vision, auditory, add, emotional needs (anxiety). Increase in testicle size: family pattern. basic skills. Sports and practice: 6-9 age group. Puberty and self image: encourage self-acceptance, risk for eating disorders. Self image: downplay importance of physical characteristics, stress personality, accomplishments, and how they treat others makes a person attractive. Greater independence drives greater concern for safety: physical injuries, cyberbully. Physical injuries: 25% more playing 2+ sports more than 10 years ago, spend ~7. 5 hours/week participating in sports, boys spend ~20% more time than girls. Cyberbullying: 9% students in grades 6-12 experience cyberbullying, talk about it with child. Ask for passwords, have friend follow them online: block person who"s cyberbullying, victimization marker of long-term risk for internalizing behavior problems and unipolar depression, keep evidence, teacher-child conflict. Nutrition"s )nfluence on physical development: grow in spurts, some grow 3x faster during particular season of year, elementary school height range from 4-5.
