PSYO 220 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Middle Childhood Body and Mind
13 Mar 2017
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Summary: middle childhood is a time of steady growth and few serious illnesses, thanks to genes and medical advances, physical activity aids health and joy. However, current social and environmental conditions make informal neighbourhood play scarce, school physical education less prevalent, and sports leagues less welcoming: childhood obesity and asthma are increasing worldwide. Although genes are part of the cause, public policies (e. g. , food advertising, pollution standards) and family practices also have an impact. Table 7. 1 advances in memory from infancy to age 11. Infants remember actions and routines that involve them. Memory is implicit, triggered by sights and sounds (an interactive toy, a (cid:272)aregi(cid:448)er"s (cid:448)oi(cid:272)e). Words are now used to encode and retrieve memories. Explicit memory begins, although children do not yet use memory strategies. They remember things by rote (their phone number, nursery rhymes) without truly understanding them.
