Question 1

Children in the middle adulthood years have less trouble understanding passive sentences than preschoolers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Intelligence quotient is the _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  intellectual level at which a child functions, based on the typical performance of a child of a certain age. 
B)  ratio obtained by dividing a child's mental age on an intelligence test by his or her chronological age. 
C)  factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an advantage for test takers from certain cultural backgrounds. 
D)  descriptive result of an intelligence test in which cultural biases have been removed. 
A)  intellectual level at which a child functions, based on the typical performance of a child of a certain age. 
B)  ratio obtained by dividing a child's mental age on an intelligence test by his or her chronological age. 
C)  factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an advantage for test takers from certain cultural backgrounds. 
D)  descriptive result of an intelligence test in which cultural biases have been removed.

Question 3

Which of the following is true of bilingual children?

Accepted Answer

A)  They use rote learning to enhance their lingual process. 
B)  They have more cognitive flexibility than monolingual children. 
C)  They are more adept at using word-recognition than phonetic learning. 
D)  They encounter more academic problems than monolingual children. 
A)  They use rote learning to enhance their lingual process. 
B)  They have more cognitive flexibility than monolingual children. 
C)  They are more adept at using word-recognition than phonetic learning. 
D)  They encounter more academic problems than monolingual children.

Question 4

Which of the following is a difference between judgments made at the preconventional level and judgments made at the postconventional level of reasoning?

Accepted Answer

A)  Unlike judgments made at the preconventional level, judgments made at the postconventional level are based on the consequences of behavior. 
B)  Unlike judgments made at the preconventional level, judgments made at the postconventional level are found in adolescents and adults. 
C)  Unlike judgments made at the postconventional level, judgments made at the preconventional level are based on a person's own moral standards. 
D)  Unlike judgments made at the postconventional level, judgments made at the preconventional level are mostly found in children above 10 years of age. 
A)  Unlike judgments made at the preconventional level, judgments made at the postconventional level are based on the consequences of behavior. 
B)  Unlike judgments made at the preconventional level, judgments made at the postconventional level are found in adolescents and adults. 
C)  Unlike judgments made at the postconventional level, judgments made at the preconventional level are based on a person's own moral standards. 
D)  Unlike judgments made at the postconventional level, judgments made at the preconventional level are mostly found in children above 10 years of age.

Question 5

Using a paintbrush to paint pictures requires the use of _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  fine motor skills. 
B)  macro motor skills. 
C)  micro motor skills. 
D)  gross motor skills. 
A)  fine motor skills. 
B)  macro motor skills. 
C)  micro motor skills. 
D)  gross motor skills.

Question 6

Which of the following statements is true of the information-processing capabilities of children in the middle years?

Accepted Answer

A)  Memory function in middle childhood is undeveloped and shows qualitative improvement only during early adolescence. 
B)  As children's knowledge of concepts advances, the storehouse of their long-term memory becomes less organized according to categories. 
C)  Concrete-operational children use rote learning only when someone forces them to do so. 
D)  Concrete-operational children can attend to multiple aspects of a problem at once, permitting them to conserve number and volume. 
A)  Memory function in middle childhood is undeveloped and shows qualitative improvement only during early adolescence. 
B)  As children's knowledge of concepts advances, the storehouse of their long-term memory becomes less organized according to categories. 
C)  Concrete-operational children use rote learning only when someone forces them to do so. 
D)  Concrete-operational children can attend to multiple aspects of a problem at once, permitting them to conserve number and volume.

Question 7

Which of the following statements is true of sensory memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  It has unlimited capacity to store information. 
B)  It is used exclusively for visual stimuli. 
C)  It shows qualitative improvement through early adolescence. 
D)  It retains the trace of a stimuli for a fraction of a second. 
A)  It has unlimited capacity to store information. 
B)  It is used exclusively for visual stimuli. 
C)  It shows qualitative improvement through early adolescence. 
D)  It retains the trace of a stimuli for a fraction of a second.

Question 8

Overweight children are usually poor at sports and are less likely to be considered attractive in adolescence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

According to Piaget's theory of moral development, how do children's moral reasoning differ in the stages of objective morality and autonomous morality?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. In the stage of objec

Question 10

What term refers to the intellectual level at which a child is functioning, based on the typical performance of a child of a certain age?

Accepted Answer

A)  Emotional quotient 
B)  Intelligence quotient 
C)  Chronological age 
D)  Mental age 
A)  Emotional quotient 
B)  Intelligence quotient 
C)  Chronological age 
D)  Mental age

Question 11

Write a brief note about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. In ADHD, the child sh

Question 12

Which of the following requires the performance of fine motor skills?

Accepted Answer

A)  Running a mile 
B)  Kicking a soccer ball 
C)  Writing a letter 
D)  Pedaling a bicycle 
A)  Running a mile 
B)  Kicking a soccer ball 
C)  Writing a letter 
D)  Pedaling a bicycle

Question 13

Mark, a six-year-old boy, cannot discriminate between the sounds of b's, d's, and p's. This becomes a problem for him in class as it creates confusion and impairs his reading ability. In this scenario, Mark has problems with _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  analytical reasoning 
B)  phonological processing 
C)  deductive reasoning 
D)  numerical cognition 
A)  analytical reasoning 
B)  phonological processing 
C)  deductive reasoning 
D)  numerical cognition

Question 14

In the phonetic method, children learn to associate written letters and letter combinations (such as "ph" or "sh") with the sounds they indicate.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, which of the following is the period during which moral judgments largely reflect social rules and conventions?

Accepted Answer

A)  The conventional level 
B)  The preoperational stage 
C)  The concrete-operational stage 
D)  The preconventional level 
A)  The conventional level 
B)  The preoperational stage 
C)  The concrete-operational stage 
D)  The preconventional level

Children in the middle adulthood years have less trouble understanding passive sentences than preschoolers.

Intelligence quotient is the _______.

Which of the following is true of bilingual children?

Which of the following is a difference between judgments made at the preconventional level and judgments made at the postconventional level of reasoning?

Using a paintbrush to paint pictures requires the use of _______.

Which of the following statements is true of the information-processing capabilities of children in the middle years?

Which of the following statements is true of sensory memory?

Overweight children are usually poor at sports and are less likely to be considered attractive in adolescence.

According to Piaget's theory of moral development, how do children's moral reasoning differ in the stages of objective morality and autonomous morality?

What term refers to the intellectual level at which a child is functioning, based on the typical performance of a child of a certain age?

Write a brief note about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Which of the following requires the performance of fine motor skills?

Mark, a six-year-old boy, cannot discriminate between the sounds of b's, d's, and p's. This becomes a problem for him in class as it creates confusion and impairs his reading ability. In this scenario, Mark has problems with _____.

In the phonetic method, children learn to associate written letters and letter combinations (such as "ph" or "sh") with the sounds they indicate.

According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, which of the following is the period during which moral judgments largely reflect social rules and conventions?

History, Theories, and Methods

Heredity and Prenatal Development

Birth and the Newborn Baby: in the New World

Infancy: Physical Development

Infancy: Cognitive Development

Infancy: Social and Emotional Development

Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Development

Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Developmeny

Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development

Adolescence: Social and Emotional Development

Early Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Early Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development

Middle Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Middle Adulthood: Social Emotional Development

Late Adulthood: Physical and Emotional Development

Late Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development

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Exam 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Children in the middle adulthood years have less trouble understanding passive sentences than preschoolers.

Intelligence quotient is the _______.

Which of the following is true of bilingual children?

Which of the following is a difference between judgments made at the preconventional level and judgments made at the postconventional level of reasoning?

Using a paintbrush to paint pictures requires the use of _______.

Which of the following statements is true of the information-processing capabilities of children in the middle years?

Which of the following statements is true of sensory memory?

Overweight children are usually poor at sports and are less likely to be considered attractive in adolescence.

According to Piaget's theory of moral development, how do children's moral reasoning differ in the stages of objective morality and autonomous morality?

What term refers to the intellectual level at which a child is functioning, based on the typical performance of a child of a certain age?

Write a brief note about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Which of the following requires the performance of fine motor skills?

Mark, a six-year-old boy, cannot discriminate between the sounds of b's, d's, and p's. This becomes a problem for him in class as it creates confusion and impairs his reading ability. In this scenario, Mark has problems with _____.

In the phonetic method, children learn to associate written letters and letter combinations (such as "ph" or "sh") with the sounds they indicate.

According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, which of the following is the period during which moral judgments largely reflect social rules and conventions?

History, Theories, and Methods

Heredity and Prenatal Development

Birth and the Newborn Baby: in the New World

Infancy: Physical Development

Infancy: Cognitive Development

Infancy: Social and Emotional Development

Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Development

Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Developmeny

Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development

Adolescence: Social and Emotional Development

Early Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Early Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development

Middle Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Middle Adulthood: Social Emotional Development

Late Adulthood: Physical and Emotional Development

Late Adulthood: Social and Emotional Development

Lifes Final Chapter

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