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

When Titu's parents ask him how his day in kindergarten went, he gives them a chronological review of what he did that day. "First we had story time, then we played outside, then we had lunch, then we rested…" If Titu were expressing this by writing it down rather than saying it he would be using a ________ strategy.

According to research (Flynn, 1999), scores on the WISC increased by nearly ____ points over a 25-year period, lending weight to the idea that intelligence is not uniquely heredity in nature.

A preschool child's caloric need is to ________ calories per day, as a 7- to 10-year-old child's caloric need is to ________ calories per day.

If Toni, who is only six-years-old, is asked what she would get if she added 5 and 10 together, which of the following processes would she most likely use?

By traditional definition, how many of the following 16-year-old children could potentially qualify for a diagnosis of intellectual disability? Kirk, IQ -120; McCoy, IQ - 100; Chekhov, IQ - 80; Sulu, IQ - 60?

On gross motor skills that emphasize ________, boys tend to have an advantage over girls.

Students on school debate teams have to learn to make cogent arguments that are capable of swaying another person's opinion or position on a given topic. If those arguments were made in writing instead of verbally, they would use a knowledge-________ strategy.

Intelligence refers to one, universal standard of skills and abilities which can be assessed equally in any context or environment.

Research has found that when high school students take physical education classes, a majority (at least half) of their time in those classes is spent

A concrete operational thinker and a formal operational thinker are given the following logical statements: (1) If you drop a 20-pound bowling ball on your foot, it will tickle. (2) You drop a 20-pound bowling ball on your foot. What reaction would you expect?

Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions from facts and is typical of formal-operational thought.

Allison can solve problems that are typically solved correctly by other children who are eight years old. Allison, however, is 10 years of age. According to intelligence tests, Allison's mental age is

The textbook identifies three ways in which the environment can contribute to differences in test scores. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

The ability to hear the distinctive sounds of each letter in language is known as ______ awareness.

Which of the following ethnic groups tends to have the highest overall performance in tests of intelligence?

If you were to ask nine-year-old Sharlise the following questions, with which would Piaget predict that she'd have the greatest struggle?

When a child suffers from developmental ________, which is the formal name for a mathematics learning disability, they may struggle learning to count, with basic arithmetic, and use inefficient methods for solving problems.

In schools where students typically succeed rather than fail, students and staff alike tend to recognize that _________ is the primary goal of the school.

________ psychologists focus on the means by which children store information in memory and retrieve it when it is needed at a later time.

Fourteen-year old Franco is doing his homework for the night, and starts by reading some of the history chapter he was assigned. Every few pages, he turns to the "Test yourself" quiz at the end of the chapter to try to answer the questions on the material he just read. If he gets the questions wrong, he reviews the material again. Franco is engaged in ________.