Exam 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Which factors are most important in determining a child's ability to play sports well?

Reaction time decreases during middle childhood.

The phonetic method is superior to the word-recognition method for learning to read.

What has recent research found in terms of today's Indigenous populations and the literacy development of their cultural languages? What can be done?

According to Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory, children progress through the stages of moral development at different rates. Which of the following statements describes children's progress through the stages?

For approximately how long will a child to experience Jean Piaget's concrete operational stage?

Why are certain disabilities, such as ADHD, often identified when children are in their middle childhood years?

Mental age and chronological age are interchangeable terms.

How many words comprise a typical child's vocabulary by age 6?

Most learning disabilities are outgrown after adolescence.

Sarah is being taught to read by associating written letters and letter combinations with the sounds they indicate. Which reading method is Sarah learning?

What part of the brain translates visual information into auditory information?

Preschoolers are most likely to use postconventional reasoning for moral behaviour.

Which of the following is demonstrated when a student with dyslexia is allowed extra time to take an exam because of the amount of reading involved?

Jocelyn understands that if A is heavier than B, and B is heavier than C, then A is also heavier than C. Which of the following is demonstrated by Jocelyn's understanding?

Which of the following is an aspect of intelligence, according to Sternberg's theory?

Which statement provides evidence for the role of environment in obesity?

Nathan had an assessment based on Sternberg's Theory of Intelligence framework. How many areas of Nathan's intelligence were tested?

What has research found in terms of the theories that explain dyslexia and whether a genetic link exists?

Knowing that if A exceeds B in some property (say, age or height) and if B exceeds C, then A must also exceed C is an example of transitivity.