Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood

Jacob is a third-grader and has a disability that has caused him to be separated from his peers during the school day. Recently Jacob has been moved to the regular third-grade classroom. Jacob has just experienced:

Piaget's third stage of cognitive development emphasizes a child's ability to reason logically and to mentally reverse actions by using the term _____, while also emphasizing that the child can only apply this reasoning to specific, often physical examples by using the term _____.

Which of the following statements about children who are bilingual is NOT true?

Marshall writes very slowly and his handwriting is virtually illegible. He also makes numerous spelling errors because of his inability to match up sounds and letters. Which of the following conditions does Marshall suffer from?

Based on data from 2011-2012, the percentage of 6- to 11-year-olds who were obese was about _____ than the percentage of two- to five-year-olds who were obese.

Which of the following is FALSE regarding working memory?

Ulonda is tired of reading her book, but she knows she needs to finish the story before she goes to school tomorrow. Ulonda is exhibiting which dimension of executive function?

A theory that states that memory is best understood by considering two types of memory representation: verbatim memory trace and gist.

What causes the autism spectrum disorders?

Describe height, weight, and muscle mass changes that take place during middle and late childhood, with an emphasis on gender differences.

Kim's mom wants to help her daughter succeed in school. To boost and maintain Kim's intellectual development, her mother should do all of the following EXCEPT:

The concrete operation that involves ordering stimuli along quantitative dimensions.

Although Tara has been categorized with _____ intellectual disability, she has her own apartment in a specially supervised building. She works for a local grocery story, mostly bagging groceries and collecting the carts from the parking lot.

_____ thinking characterizes the kind of thinking that is required when taking bits of information, such as a random group of letters, and making a word out of them.

Sheila, diagnosed with severe ADHD, moves back and forth between a classroom and a learning lab. Her teacher monitors her behavior to determine the _____ is a setting that is as similar as possible to the one in which children who do not have a disability are educated.

The Education for All Handicapped Children Act, enacted in 1975, required that:

Research on early intervention to increase IQ scores in children have found all of the following to be true EXCEPT:

A shift in brain activation of school-age children from more diffuse to more focal areas in the prefrontal cortex was linked to:

One of the explanations for the gender difference in the identification of learning disabilities is that:

Although Casey scores only about average on standardized intelligence tests, he is street smart, and has excellent social skills and good common sense. According to Sternberg, he has high _____ intelligence.