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1. How do nutrition and heredity affect stature and physique in middle childhood?

2. What are the causes of obesity?

3. How is asthma caused by modern life?

4. What factors affect which specific motor skills a child masters during the school year?

5. What gender differences and similarities are apparent in motor skills between the ages of 7 and 11?

6. What does an IQ test measure?

7. What are some of the benefits and problem involved in the use of standardized achievement tests?

8. How does developmental psychopathology view children with psychological disorders relative to "normal" children?

9. What are the three major characteristics of autism?

10. What are the signs of at least two specific learning disabilities?

11. How might the symptoms of ADHD in a specific child change with age?

12. What are the arguments for and against the use of psychoactive drugs to control ADHD?

13. What are the advantages & disadvantages of inclusion for learning disabled students?

14. In your experience what aspects of your physical appearance or behavior made you different from other children during the school years? What were the psychological and social consequences ( both positive & negative) of your special situation?