Exam 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

The process by which children adopt principles that lead them to evaluate behaviors as right or wrong and to govern their own actions in terms of these principles is called:

Byram was not born in the United States and his native language is not English. He has difficulty participating fully in school because he does not speak, read, write, or understand English. At this point Byram could be classified as:

Factors that increase childhood obesity include:

Which of the following health risks is related to overweight in children?

From 1980 to 2006, the proportion of children between the ages of 6 and 11 who were overweight:

The determination of the severity of an intellectual disability or cognitive limitation is based upon:

What is prosocial behavior and when do children acquire it?

During middle childhood physical growth is __________ than it is during early childhood or adolescence.

Research on creativity has found that:

An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is provided for all students who are classified as having a disability. Which of the following people are involved in developing this plan?

Brian is a healthy child of normal intelligence, but he has difficulty recognizing written words, which leads to difficulty with reading comprehension and writing. Brian most likely has a disorder called:

Mr. Barker believes that his students' capabilities can be made evident through more than a test grade. He requires each student to collect evidence of all the work they have done, including art work, projects they have made in shop class, and extracurricular activities, as well as class assignments. This work is put together in book form and then displayed for the school and parents. Students receive grades based upon this project. This is known as:

The definition cited in your textbook for overweight is:

A belief that moral development occurs in an orderly fashion based upon the stages of cognitive development and the emergence of logical thought would be most closely associated with which of the following theorists?

Mental strategies that involve _____________ account for successful math performance in 8 to 9 year-olds.

At about what age do children come to recognize certain regularities or unchanging qualities in the inner dispositions and behaviors of individuals?

Which of these is the most common childhood illness?

According to your textbook, homeschooled children:

Gilligan suggests that men have a morality of justice and women have a morality of: