True/False: Although adequate nutrition affects growth, height is mostly influenced by the environment.

True/False: Many boys and girls have inward signs of changes that can be noticed through increased perspiration and sweating.

True/False: Around 9 or 10 years of age, children often start to lose their baby teeth.

True/False: When the permanent teeth replace the smaller baby teeth, they often look oversized for the child's facial proportions.

True/False:During middle childhood, children's facial features mature and elongate.

True/False: Gross-motor development changes rapidly during middle childhood due to the growth and strengthening of small muscles.

True/False: During middle childhood, children are very similar in their muscle control and coordination.

True/False: During middle childhood, the muscles in children's hands develop rapidly and as a result, fine-motor tasks become easier.

True/False: The number of overweight and obese children in America has been decreasing during recent decades.

True/False: Body composition describes the proportion of body fat to lean mass (muscle, bone, and water) in a person's body.

True/False: The three types of activities that can strengthen physical growth and development are aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening activities.

Children in Middle Childhood are ages ____ to ____.

At the beginning of middle childhood, many children tend to focus on only one part of a situation. Piaget referred to this way of thinking as ________.

The third stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development is called the ___________ stage.

Vygotsky believes that children learn best through ___________.

Kohlberg's first level of moral development is called __________ morality.

Older children may be in Kohlberg's second stage of moral development, called _________ morality.

In the second stage of morality, children may make decisions based on laws and how they might be ___________.

According to Erikson, children in middle childhood are in the fourth stage of psychosocial development, called _____ versus _____.