Exam 12: Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development

Sensory memory improves until about age _____ and then remains adequate until late adulthood.

At what age is a child likely to understand that the word unbreakable means "cannot be broken"?

Approximately what percentage of the world's 7-year-olds are in school?

While literacy and numeracy are valued in every school, curriculum specifics _____.

A significant contribution of Piaget's cognition theory is that he realized that school-age children become _____.

Evaluating a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish and monitor one's performance is called _____.

In the United States, public schools that set their own standards, are licensed by the state, and receive funding from private money and sponsors are charter schools.

From an information-processing approach, the memory process has three major steps. What is the correct order of this process, beginning with the first component?

As of 2014, the United States' public schools have become "majority _____."

Mastery of pragmatics allows children to change styles of speech, or "codes," depending on the audience. What code are children likely to use with their peers?

Vygotsky regarded _____ as crucial in human cognitive development.

Which aspect of memory has a very large capacity by middle childhood?

A public subsidy for tuition payment at a nonpublic school is referred to as a(n) _____.

When Piaget referred to concrete operations, he meant logic applied in situations that _____.

The process of switching codes is limited to sentence and grammar usage.

With respect to sociocultural context, children from the Varanasi region in India learn what specific ability from their culture?

In one international study of the effects of early formal instruction, it was found that children who started school at age 4 or 5 instead of age 6 or 7 tended to _____.

A broad body of knowledge in a particular subject that makes it easier to master new information in that subject is referred to as a knowledge _____.

In recent years, Finland has gained a great deal of attention for its very successful educational system. Which statement about Finland's educational reform is true?

What is the primary international test of science and math?