Exam 12: School As Context for Development

Schooling improves cognitive performance by:

The ability to fill in the blanks of a nursery rhyme indicates what ability?

Heath's study examining the book reading of European American teachers, European American textile workers, and African American textile and farm workers provide evidence for:

The effects of school on children's cognitive abilities can be best studied:

Eric is currently in the fifth grade and has never learned how to print properly, regardless of repeated instruction at school and at home. He also struggles with spelling and putting his thoughts on paper. Which specific learning disability does Eric have?

Formal education is the most structured type of explicit education.

Reciprocal teaching is an example of:

Chinese-speaking children are able to map numbers to specific quantities at a younger age than English-speaking children because:

Children who are socialized in an interdependent culture are more likely to:

The MOST structured type of explicit instruction that adults use to teach children the specialized knowledge and skills of their culture is called:

Samantha is learning how to read and has been taught to identify letters first and then the sounds that each letter makes. Now she is learning how to combine or blend the sounds of letters together. Which strategy is Samantha using to learn how to read?

Where do children spend the LEAST amount of time in school?

Children who held a belief that intelligence was ____________ avoided challenging tasks while children who believed that intelligence was ____________ applied themselves and tried harder when faced with challenging tasks.

Brenda is being assessed for a possible specific learning disability. Specifically, the school psychologist is administering an IQ test to Brenda and will then compare the results of the IQ test to Brenda's grades in school. Which diagnostic method is being used?

Previous research has found that very young babies:

_____ is the MOST common type of specific learning disability.

If Ms. Clark, a third-grade teacher, asks a student, "What does this say?" she:

Josefa and Ann have birthdays one month apart. Josefa's birth date puts her in first grade while Ann's puts her in kindergarten. When they are tested on a recall test at the end of the school year, Josefa remembers more items than Ann. What would you tell Ann's mother about this result?

Researchers have found that novice apprentices receive relatively little explicit instruction but, instead, are given ample opportunity to observe skilled workers and to practice specific tasks.

Which method of diagnosing specific learning disabilities involves identifying discrepant performance of different subscales of tests of intellectual or cognitive functioning?