Exam 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Which of the following characteristics of children is most likely to decrease during the middle childhood years?

Reaction time tends to increase through middle childhood and adolescence.

A drug that increases the activity of the nervous system is known as a ______.

According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, during which level do children base their moral judgments on rules that maintain the social order?

Steve is an eight-year-old boy. He faces trouble in reading exercises in school. He says that he finds it difficult to associate letters with sound. In this scenario, Steve most likely has problems with the _____.

Stimulants used for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ______.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a disorder characterized by excessive inattention, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity.

Which of the following terms is of the view that retribution for wrongdoing is a direct consequence of the wrongdoing?

In middle childhood, girls show less forearm strength than boys.

Which of the following is true of concrete-operational children?

Which of the following statements is true of dyslexia?

Explain the phonetic method of teaching.

Which of the following statements is true of the impact of gender difference on growth through middle childhood?

Which of the following processes is used to assess whether a child understands the principle of transitivity?

Which of the following statements accurately describes the impact of gender differences on physical growth during the middle childhood years?

John and Jean are taking notes in class. John can write faster than Jean when the teacher dictates the lesson. This is because John responds faster to auditory stimuli than Jean does. This illustrates the difference in John's and Jean's ______. gross motor skills.

According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, who among the following children is in the preconventional stage?

Which of the following is true of children in the middle years?

One strategy for promoting memory is to emphasize the essential nature of words used to describe visual stimuli.

Which of the following terms refers to a person's actual age?