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

When children spend more time with people who share their own perspectives on the world, they tend to experience a reduction in ________.

Describe why the statement, "Children with 'learning disabilities' are identical to those with 'intellectual disability'" is false. In doing so, be sure to provide definitions of both cognitive categories.

Dolph is 12-years-old, and he regularly runs around with his friends and gets a good amount of activity for 2 hours each day. According to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (2004) Dolph

The formula for calculating a person's intelligence quotient, first used in the Stanford-Binet intelligence test, is ________.

Howard Gardner is to ___ type(s) of intelligence, as Charles Spearman is to ____ type(s) of intelligence.

As children gain more general knowledge of their worlds-physical, social, and psychological-it is reasonable to assume that their reading ________ skills would improve.

More than 100 years ago, ________ developed a theory of intelligence that suggested that there was a singular factor, called 'g', that was responsible for performance on all mental tests.

When considering the theme paper his teacher just assigned, Theodore says to himself, "Before I start writing, I need to decide what I am going to write about and come up with a general organizational plan." Given this description, Theodore appears to be using a ____ strategy in planning his theme.

How have schools reacted to the idea of employing Gardner's ideas in the classroom?

Intelligence tests have been found to be very poor predictors of both school and workplace success.

Which statement about youth sports is true?

List and describe at two different changes in a child's thought processes that occur during the last two stages of Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

Your textbook notes that three of the types of intelligence proposed in Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences are included in traditional theories of intelligence. Those three include all but which of the following?

Intelligence is to ________ as creativity is to ________.

Why is it so inaccurate to presume that most children with ADHD will simply "grow out" of their difficulties?

________ thinking involves using information to arrive at one standard and correct answer.

Traditionally, giftedness was defined by having an IQ score of ________ or higher.

Excellent teachers value and promote tutoring, particularly peer tutoring.

Why is it that less is known about mathematics learning disabilities than reading disabilities?

A person's knowledge and awareness of their own cognitive processes is called ________ knowledge.