Exam 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

German researchers extended Chi's studies with chess experts and found that when expert and novice chess players were asked to remember the random placement of chess pieces:

Why do cross-cultural studies of memory and concrete-operational thinking have different implications?

When Liberian children who had never been to school were asked to recall items that were grouped in a meaningful way, they performed:

Obese children are more likely to:

The limbic system includes all of these brain structures EXCEPT:

You are a first-grade teacher and notice your students are having trouble remembering how to spell words for their spelling lists and seem to keep forgetting the key terms in your social studies unit on the community. What should you do?

Conservation refers to understanding that:

Three factors, taken together, appear to bring about the memory changes characteristic of middle childhood: (1) increases in the speed and capacity of working memory; (2) increases in knowledge about the things one is trying to remember; and (3) acquisition of more effective strategies for remembering.

In a series of studies using the Tower of Hanoi, researchers found that:

Executive function has been found to be important to:

The fact that some monozygotic twins are not a similar size is support for the basic concept that:

Chi compared the memories of 10-year-old chess buffs with college-age chess novices and found that:

Intelligence has been defined differently by various cultures. All of the following have been used to define intelligence EXCEPT:

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is calculated by the formula: IQ = (MA/CA) 100.

Childhood obesity:

When IQ tests were given to military recruits during World War I, which of the following was found?

Higher-level cognitive processes, such as aspects of cognition associated with supervising and controlling lower-level cognitive processes are called:

What do researchers currently believe is the BEST way to diagnose obesity accurately?

Which of the following accompanies the loss of baby teeth in some cultures?

Makayla age 6, knows a lot about baseball. When she is asked to recall a random list of baseball terms, she remembers more of the terms than an 18-year-old who is unfamiliar with baseball. Makayla remembers more because of her better: