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

Successful schools realize that academic excellence is important, but should not be the primary emphasis of a curriculum.

The best example of metamemory would involve knowing that

Ben is an 11-year-old boy whose parents have enrolled him to play on a little league baseball team. If Ben is typical of other boys his age, he can probably throw a baseball just over _____ feet.

On gross motor skills that emphasize ________________, boys tend to have an advantage over girls.

Why is it that children are typically able to improve their handwriting skills as they move through the elementary school years?

Fifteen-year old Stephanie is having difficulty remembering how to spell the word "definitely" for an upcoming quiz in her English class. She can't remember whether it is "definitely" or "definately." She thinks about it for a moment and decides that the easiest way to remember is that the word has one prefix ("de"), one root word ("finite"), and one suffix ("ly"). By separating the root word, she has an easier time remembering that the middle vowel is "i" and not "a." Stephanie has used the memory strategy of ____ to master this word.

"Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah," Diane says to her younger sister Rhonda. "I have reached the formal-operational stage of thinking, so according to Piaget, I can now think ____ and you can't!" As ridiculous as this conversation is, if Diane is 13 and Rhonda is 9, what would the correct answer be?

Compare and contrast metacognitive knowledge and metamemory.

Children in the concrete operational stage of cognitive development have typically overcome centration, egocentrism, and accepting appearances as reality.

Research has found that when high school students take physical education classes, nearly half of their time in those classes is spent

In 1904, Thurstone and Thurstone proposed the idea that intelligence is comprised of one overarching factor, which is responsible for performance on all mental tests.

A very popular video aimed at teaching children how to read teaches the following song, using each letter in the alphabet; "The A says "ah," the A says "ah!" Every letter makes a sound, the A says "ah."" The song goes on to do each letter in the same way (e.g., "The B says "buh," etc.) This video is helping kids learn to read by promoting ____ awareness.

As children enter puberty, boys tend to have more lean muscle and less fat than girls do. This would tend to give boys an advantage in which of the following activities?

Rich and Seth are given an assignment to come up with a theme for the school's book fair. They sit down at a table together and start making a list of different ideas. They decide not to worry about whether each idea is good or not, but instead to put as many ideas on paper as they can and then go back and evaluate each one. Rich and Seth are engaged in ____ thinking.

According to research (Flynn, 1999), scores on the WISC increased by nearly ________________ points over a 25-year period, lending weight to the idea that intelligence is not uniquely heredity in nature.

By the traditional definition, how many of the following 16-year-olds could potentially qualify for a diagnosis of intellectual disability? Kirk, IQ -120; McCoy, IQ - 100; Chekhov, IQ - 80; Sulu, IQ - 60?

Significant limitations in cognitive skills that are accompanied by difficulties in adapting to one's environment define ____, provided that these symptoms emerge prior to 18 years of age.

Your textbook notes that three of the types of intelligence proposed in Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences are included in traditional theories of intelligence. Those three include all EXCEPT which of the following?

The ability to draw a conclusion from a set of facts reflects ____ reasoning.

About 3-5% of school-aged children in the United States are diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).