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

Maria enjoys cake decorating and making treats for weddings. For her it is great fun to learn about the couple and their interests, and then design a one-of-a-kind cake with decorations. Sometimes Maria has her staff actually put the pieces together-for her the fun is in the design. According to Sternberg, she has high _____ intelligence.

Use the four criteria associated with gifted children, including those proposed by Ellen Winner, to describe the habits of a child who is gifted in mathematics and science.

Damon's teachers frequently complain that he disrupts his kindergarten class by fidgeting and moving about all the time. He does not appear to pay any attention to what is being taught in class and behaves impulsively. Damon's teacher strongly suspects he may be diagnosed with _____.

The _____ approach to reading instruction emphasizes the teaching of basic rules for translating written symbols into sounds.

_____ is a relatively mild autism spectrum disorder in which the child has relatively good verbal language, milder nonverbal language problems, and a restricted range of interests and relationships.

Ms. McIntyre is helping two children, a boy and a girl, who are having significant trouble with listening, reading, and spelling. Research would say she is more likely to find outside help for the boy first, demonstrating the _____ bias.

_____ is knowledge about language, such as knowing what a preposition is or the ability to discuss the sounds of a language.

Children who have reached the concrete operational stage are capable of _____, which is the ability to order stimuli along a quantitative dimension, such as size or length.

In terms of a mathematical relationship, a person's mental age divided by chronological age (CA), multiplied by 100, would indicate that person's:

The mental area, often compared to a carpenter's workbench, where individuals manipulate and combine information when making decisions or understand something they are reading, is called:

Which of the following is the LEAST likely reason African American, Latino, and Native American children are underrepresented in gifted programs?

Before she started school in the United States, Mita, daughter of immigrant parents of Indian origin, used to speak only her home language of Hindi fluently. She then learned to speak English in school and attained fluency in both Hindi and English. However, as she grew older, she started to feel ashamed of her roots and has given up speaking Hindi altogether. This phenomenon is called:

_____ is a severe developmental disorder that has its onset in the first three years of life and includes deficiencies in social relationships; abnormalities in communication; and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior.

Describe the mandates established by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA).

If we look at Madeline's mental age and divide it by her chronological age, and then multiply it by 100, we are calculating her _____.

Cassidy is a teacher who loves to try Piagetian questions on her young son. One day in the car she asked him who the fastest runners in his class were. To confirm she asked, "Kevin is faster than Bill, right?" and later she asked, "Nate is faster than Kevin, right?" Waiting a while, she asked, "Is Nate or Bill faster?" She smiled when her son said, "_____," because he was demonstrating _____.

Which of the following is TRUE of giftedness?

When comparing trends in IQ tests from people around the world, it is clear that IQ scores have been:

Her mother noticed Karlee was giving her full attention to her crayons, placing them on the table from the tallest down to the shortest. Karlee is fascinated with her new skill of _____.

The concept that a child with a disability must be educated in a setting that is as similar as possible to settings of children who do not have disabilities.