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Experience Human Development
Chapter 9 Questions with Correct
Answers for Specific Exam Mail
Height and weight
Ans: Children grow about 2-3 inches per year between
ages 6 and 11 and approximately double their weight
during that period. Girls retain more fatty tissue. African
American boys tend to grow faster than white children.
Less than 10% of cals
Ans: should come from saturated fat.
Nutrition
Ans: schoolchildren need, on average, 2,400 calories a
day.
Sleep
Ans: 10 hours at age 9, 9 hours at age 13
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Sleep problems
Ans: resistance to going to bed, insomnia, and daytime
sleepiness are common. They make their own bedtimes,
and have TV's in their bedrooms.
Recess-Time Play
Ans: Informal and spontaneously organized. Boys play
more physically active games. Girls favor games that
include verbal expression or counting aloud
Rough-and-tumble play
Ans: Wrestling, kicking, tumbling, grappling, and chasing.
Seems to be universal.
Rough and Tumble adaptive benefits
Ans: Hones skeletal and muscle development, offers safe
practice for hunting and fighting skills, and channels
aggression and competition.
Sports
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Ans: 38.5% participate in organized sports. Improves
motor skills, weight control, lower blood pressure,
improved cardiovascular functioning, and enhanced self-
esteem and well-being.
Obesity in children has become
Ans: a major health issue worldwide. Boys are more likely
to be overweight than girls.
Body image
Ans: how one believes one looks. Playing with physically
unrealistic dolls, such as barbie, may be an influence in
that direction.
Causes of obesity
Ans: Inherited tendency aggravated by too little exercise
and too much or the wrong kinds of foods. Eating out.
Inactivity.
Childhood obesity concerns
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Ans: Risk for behavioral problems, depression and low
self-esteem, medical problems (HBP, High Cholesterol,
High insulin levels) Childhood diabetes.
Overweight children often
Ans: Suffer emotionally and may compensate by
indulging with treats, making their physical and social
problems even worse. Fall behind other classmates.
Hypertension
Ans: Chronically high blood pressure.
Preventing weight gain is
Ans: easier, less costly, and more effective than treating
obesity.
Children should only get about
Ans: 30 percent of their total calories from fat and less
than 10 percent of the total from saturated fat.
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Experience Human Development
Chapter 9 Questions with Correct
Answers for Specific Exam Mail
Height and weight
Ans: Children grow about 2-3 inches per year between
ages 6 and 11 and approximately double their weight
during that period. Girls retain more fatty tissue. African
American boys tend to grow faster than white children.
Less than 10% of cals
Ans: should come from saturated fat.
Nutrition
Ans: schoolchildren need, on average, 2,400 calories a
day.
Sleep
Ans: 10 hours at age 9, 9 hours at age 13
Pretest - Stuvia US
,2
Sleep problems
Ans: resistance to going to bed, insomnia, and daytime
sleepiness are common. They make their own bedtimes,
and have TV's in their bedrooms.
Recess-Time Play
Ans: Informal and spontaneously organized. Boys play
more physically active games. Girls favor games that
include verbal expression or counting aloud
Rough-and-tumble play
Ans: Wrestling, kicking, tumbling, grappling, and chasing.
Seems to be universal.
Rough and Tumble adaptive benefits
Ans: Hones skeletal and muscle development, offers safe
practice for hunting and fighting skills, and channels
aggression and competition.
Sports
Pretest - Stuvia US
,3
Ans: 38.5% participate in organized sports. Improves
motor skills, weight control, lower blood pressure,
improved cardiovascular functioning, and enhanced self-
esteem and well-being.
Obesity in children has become
Ans: a major health issue worldwide. Boys are more likely
to be overweight than girls.
Body image
Ans: how one believes one looks. Playing with physically
unrealistic dolls, such as barbie, may be an influence in
that direction.
Causes of obesity
Ans: Inherited tendency aggravated by too little exercise
and too much or the wrong kinds of foods. Eating out.
Inactivity.
Childhood obesity concerns
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, 4
Ans: Risk for behavioral problems, depression and low
self-esteem, medical problems (HBP, High Cholesterol,
High insulin levels) Childhood diabetes.
Overweight children often
Ans: Suffer emotionally and may compensate by
indulging with treats, making their physical and social
problems even worse. Fall behind other classmates.
Hypertension
Ans: Chronically high blood pressure.
Preventing weight gain is
Ans: easier, less costly, and more effective than treating
obesity.
Children should only get about
Ans: 30 percent of their total calories from fat and less
than 10 percent of the total from saturated fat.
Pretest - Stuvia US
