latency stage
- noun
- /ˈleɪtəns tiːdʒ/
- Specialized
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etapa de latencia
- During the latency stage, children often focus on schoolwork, friendships, and hobbies.
Examples
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Teachers notice that students in the latency stage tend to channel their energy into learning and socializing.
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Freud believed the latency stage was essential for a child's social and cognitive growth.
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The latency stage is crucial for developing social skills.
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During the latency stage, children often focus on friendships.
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During the latency stage, children often focus on schoolwork, friendships, and hobbies.
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Teachers notice that students in the latency stage tend to channel their energy into learning and socializing.
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Freud believed the latency stage was essential for a child's social and cognitive growth.
Synonyms
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7.4
A time when something exists but is not yet active or visible
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8.9
A childhood stage from about age five to puberty when sexual feelings are turned toward school and friends
A stage in child development from about five until puberty when children focus on learning and friends
Antonyms
How Mature
- Specialized
- Specialized
- NSFW
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Knowing 'latency' (a period of inactivity) and 'stage' (a phase) lets a learner infer this refers to a developmental phase characterized by a period of inactivity, so the broad idea is recoverable. However, the specific psychoanalytic content (repression and redirection of sexual impulses until puberty) is technical and not predictable from the constituents alone, so full meaning requires prior exposure or domain knowledge.
Etymology
Latency stage comes from latency, which means 'hidden', like a secret put in a box. In child development this image shows that sexual feelings are 'kept down' and turned into school, friends, and hobbies, so the phrase refers to the time before 'puberty' when those urges are not active.