Exam 6: Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood

Which of the following summarizes what must be done with exceptional talent in a child if that talent is to blossom and grow?

By the age of ______ years, most children have learned the addition tables so well that the sums of single digit numbers can be retrieved from memory rather than recalculated.

If a teacher felt that the theory of multiple intelligences by Gardner was the best way to conceptualize a child's education, how might he run his class?

The best example of metamemory would involve knowing that

The ability to draw a conclusion from a set of facts reflects ________ reasoning.

A child who is diagnosed with a learning disability must meet all but which of the following criteria?

One factor that seems to explain group differences in intelligence test scores, particularly between Asian American and European American individuals and African American and Latino American individuals is

An adolescent's increased sophistication in their thinking is shown in their ability to draw conclusions from a collection of facts, a skill known as ________ reasoning.

One way of assessing whether intelligence tests actually work is to compare their results with other areas known to be affected by one's intellect. In fact, intelligence tests are very powerful predictors of all but which of the following?

Research is mixed regarding the outcomes of childhood participation in organized sports, with both benefits and hazards having been identified.

Intellectual disability used to be called ________, and many federal and state laws in the United States still use that term.

Georgie is taking a chemistry class, where different liquids must be combined in specific amounts in order to produce an end product. Rather than just pouring them all together, Georgie understands that he must combine specific amounts of each ingredient so that he creates the right mixture. Clearly Georgie has reached the ________ stage of cognitive development.

The primary explanation for why there is such a variety of intelligence levels among one particular group of same-aged individuals is ________.

With regard to treating ADHD, medication alone is to _________ as medication plus behavioral therapy is to ________.

Mental ________ are cognitive actions that can be performed on objects or ideas, and they are usually acquired during the concrete operational period of cognitive development

Young Pinky is having difficulty with her pronunciation of certain words. She often asks her parents for a glass of "wadah." They understand that she wants "water," and they to gently correct her. Even though they repeat the word, emphasizing the "t" sound in the middle of the word, Pinky doesn't seem to understand what she is saying incorrectly. In this example, Pinky is struggling most with ________.

What is the primary reason why understanding learning disabilities is so complicated?

Ben is an 11-year-old boy whose father and mother have enrolled him to play on a little league baseball team. If Ben is typical of other boys his age, he can probably throw a baseball just over _____ feet.

Which evidence best demonstrates an environmental impact on intelligence?

"Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah," Diane says to her younger sister Rhonda. "I have reached the formal-operational stage of thinking, so according to Piaget I can now think ________ and you can't!" As ridiculous as this conversation is, if Diane is 13 and Rhonda is 9, what would the correct answer be?