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

As the parent of Grade 3 learner, you are growing concerned about your daughter's level of fitness and are considering putting her into an organised sports program. If your daughter is a typical South African child, why would your concern over lack of fitness probably be justified? Also, what are the pros and cons of placing a child into organised sports?

Which describes one of the major criticisms of Piaget's theory concerning formal-operational thought?

Which statement concerning ethnicity and intelligence is most accurate?

Which behaviour is least associated with a cognitive self-regulation process?

A child with outstanding divergent thinking skills would definitely have a lot of

If Dikeledi is a typical six-year-old, she would most likely

Working memory is best described as being

The fact that children with higher IQ scores tend to come from homes that provide them with cognitively challenging materials such as puzzles and books best supports the theory that:

The typical correlation between a child's IQ test score and their classroom grade is about ____.

When 80-year-old Mandla is asked about his life, he is able to vividly recall a party that he went to in his matric year, 60 years ago. Where was this information stored just before it was recalled by Mandla?

Miriam's intelligence quotient is 100. She is 12 years old, so her mental age must be ____.

Which activity best demonstrates a test of divergent thinking?

Precious loves to cook. While she is capable of reciting a large number of complete recipes and she often comes up with exotic dishes, the truth of the matter is that none of her recipes ever tastes very good, and she is always putting the uneaten leftovers in the fridge after evening dinners with her family. This indicates that on this task, Precious would rate poorly in ____ ability.

The main limitation of concrete-operational thinking is that such thought is limited to

Which phrase reflects a basic ability available only to a formal-operational thinker?

Children who are active physically have better health, better self-esteem, and

Tumi used to think that everyone else liked the same people she liked. She now realises that different people have different opinions toward others. Piaget would suggest that Tumi has recently become a ____ thinker.

A good teacher

Psychometricians specialise in the biology of the brain.

Which strategy tends to be most common in young writers?