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

Describe the causes and consequences of childhood obesity.

Interventions with children who have a learning disability often focus on improving:

About _____ of those diagnosed with intellectual disabilities require extensive or constant supervision.

Alberta is a school teacher who introduces children to reading by teaching them a rhyme that goes, "A for apple, A says ah; B for ball, B says buh," and so on. This exemplifies the _____ approach to reading instruction.

This theorist distinguished between convergent thinking and divergent thinking.

Lillette, age nine, is particularly susceptible to bruising and infections. She has been diagnosed with _____, a cancer in which the bone marrow manufactures an abundance of abnormal white blood cells.

What areas of intelligence do Sternberg's model and Gardner's model have in common? What areas of intelligence does Gardner include that Sternberg does not?

Improvement of fine motor skills during middle and late childhood is a reflection of:

Sandra, age nine, was always behind in class because she could only write very slowly, and even then her painstaking efforts would be virtually illegible and riddled with spelling mistakes. Her teacher referred her to a psychologist who diagnosed her with a learning disability called: