Exam 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

When people do a good job evaluating what happens in their environment, modify it, and take what happens to fit their own needs, they are considered to be high in _____ intelligence.

Michelle has three children who all have been identified by their pediatrician as at risk for obesity. Based on the research on childhood obesity, which of the following suggestions do you think their pediatrician gave to Michelle?

Carter has a very difficult time sitting in his chair at school. He is constantly chewing on his pencil or fidgeting with something on his desk (or his neighbor's desk). He gets up out of his seat at inappropriate times. He blurts out answers when he is not called on and cannot wait his turn. Carter would most likely be diagnosed with:

Individuals who are high in interpersonal intelligence often learn second languages with ease.

Which of the following is not an illustration of the connection between intelligence scores and education?

All of Annabelle's teachers comment on what nice penmanship she has. She also loves to braid friendship bracelets and play the flute. Annabelle is demonstrating skill in which area of motor development?

IQ test have been shown to have high validity in predicting school achievement, how long a child will stay in school, and career attainment in adulthood.

When do children begin acting on the basis of benevolence (believing that others at a disadvantage should get special consideration)?

Chen moved to the United States from China. She does not speak English well, but the principal of the school believes that children who have a different first language learn best by being in a classroom with English-speaking students. He thinks that Chen will learn English faster if she learns English and course content at the same time. What approach is Chen's school using?

How do health care professionals determine whether someone is in the healthy range for weight?

Will uses curse words when he is hanging out with his friends, but he would never use a curse word in front of his grandma or his teacher. Will understands:

How is a child's capacity to solve conservation problems related to advances in information processing abilities?

What does the inclusion approach to special education mean?

The view that literacy is an extension of language and children learn to read and write through trial and error discovery similar to how they learn to speak is called the _____ approach.

Researchers have labeled the observation that intelligence scores increase with each generation as the:

Which of the following is not one of the characteristics that describe vocabulary usage in middle childhood-aged children?

Schooling influences the rate at which principles related to concrete operational reasoning are understood.

Children do not need to practice conservation tasks in order to apply them to other conservation problems.

Monica attends a private boarding school with a strict dress code and many rules for acceptable behavior. When asked why she won't wear clothes that are against dress code, she says that the principal made the rules for a reason and that it is up to him to change them; she doesn't have the right to change the dress code just because she doesn't like it. Which stage of moral reasoning is Monica most likely in?

Currently schools tend to emphasize intelligence as defined by standardized IQ tests.