5 years: Temporal-pole fissure is complete {brain development, 5 years}.
5 years: Children can organize memories, so they can recover from speaking interruptions {cognition development, 5 years}. Children can draw squares and triangles but not diamonds, trace long straight lines, draw people, recall 4 to 5 numbers immediately, and pick up tiny pellets and place them. Children have good balance, show handedness, act independently, dress themselves, use toilet alone, play alone unsupervised, solve small problems, imitate activities, and talk and think to themselves.
5 years: Children have well-defined personalities {emotion development, 5 years}. Approach-avoidance conflict is common, leading to gratification delay or inhibition. Quarrels are verbal and longer. Seeking attention and approval shows dependency, as do touching and clinging. Dependency in girls stays the same until age 14. Children like nurturance from opposite-sex parent more.
5 years: Children have 2000-word vocabularies {language development, 5 years}.
5 years: Boys and girls are same size, averaging 1.08 meters and 19 kilograms {physical development, 5 years}. Relative height at age five highly correlates with adult relative height. Reaction to infection is at lower temperature but lasts longer.
5 to 10 years: Immediate-memory capacity increases, impulsitivity decreases, and reflectivity increases, because children become more aware and fear making mistakes {cognition development, 5 to 10 years}. Other fears are darkness, aloneness, imaginary creatures, and dangerous animals. Perhaps, these fears relate to parental punishments. Morals and conscience develop.
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