Exam 12: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Sarah is playing a game on a computer. Level 1 required her to match a set of objects together that were the same color, but to pass Level 2, she was required to match objects together by shape. This game is testing Sarah's

Manuel noticed his daughter is showing a talent for critical thinking and writing, but believes that her skills in those areas can only improve with practice, so he is careful to provide her a good education, lots of reading materials, and engages her in critical discussion over the dinner table. Manuel's perspective of intelligence would reflect a(n)

Rachel gets a lot of joy from building and racing cars made from scraps of wood and metal she finds in her fathers' workshop and spends hours reading books and learning new techniques to make her cars move faster. Rachel's car hobby would be considered

6-year-olds Rick and Cathy were introduced to a computer game where they scored points for matching objects that were similar in shape and color and moving them to specific locations on a chessboard. While Cathy initially struggled with how to play the game, Rick was quick to understand and implement the game rules and scored a lot of points. Compared to Cathy, Rick most likely has higher _______ intelligence.

Mrs. Majors walks around her classroom, observing her students working on individual essays describing their favorite animal at the zoo. This type of teaching strategy would be called

Francis Galton supported the now highly discredited idea that heritable human characteristics could be controlled through breeding, a concept known as

Lisa had always been told she was very smart in areas related to reading skills and reading comprehension, and she labels herself as innately smart. She had little difficulty reading or understanding the books she was assigned to in class. However, when she moved from the third to the fourth grade, Lisa found the new reading assignments to be very challenging. As a result, Lisa is likely to

Eric was instructed to press a button as quickly as he could to a series of statements such as "Is an apple an animal?" How fast he was able to correct respond to these questions would be a measure of his

In comparison to younger children, by the school age years, many children can create sentences that are _______ and incorporate _______ ideas and concepts.

Su-Wei was sharing with her class about her earliest memories of being taken on her father's fishing boat on her birthday in Taiwan, learning how to catch fish and later prepare it for sale in the market, and making traditional Taiwanese dishes prepared using fish. Su-Wei is drawing knowledge from her _______ memory.

_______ memory is defined as the personal events that you remember, whereas _______ memory consists of memories related to general knowledge.

Peter is 9, and still has trouble with schoolwork and everyday tasks like learning to clean his room, dress himself and write his name. Peter would most likely be classified as

Evaluate the strengths and limitations associated with theories of multiple intelligences such as those of Gardner and Sternberg.

When Tilla won her class math contest, her mother responded, "Wow Tilla, you're so smart!" This type of response, known as _______, can have implications for a child's future motivation and performance.

Which of the following best describes Robert Sternberg's unique contribution to the discussion of the basis for intelligence?

Hector proudly shows off his binder of baseball cards to his friends at school. The cards are organized based on a player's team affiliation, base percentage, and finally home runs. Hector has organized his cards using

Which of the following would be an example of a limitation in the thinking of a child at the concrete operational stage?

A group of children who typically enjoyed drawing and painting were told that they could earn tokens if they drew and painted pictures of the researcher. They would earn 5 tokens per piece they produced. Overtime, the children who created pieces of art for tokens

When Bridgette was three years old, she could count to 10 with a little help, and name some basic colors. Now at 5 years of age, she can count to 100, knows all the colors of the rainbow, and can recite the entire alphabet. Bridgette has expanded her _______ intelligence.

Yvette's mother sits with her as she tries to read her favorite book out loud. When they read the word "tree," Yvette's mother says, "Let's sound this out- 't-r-ee.' 'Tree.'" This approach to learning to read is known as the _______ approach.