Exam 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

____________is the main activity of children 6 to 12 years of age worldwide.

________is the skillby which individuals make organized use of short-term Memory.

Why is automaticity important for cognitive development?

__________ is the ability to understand and utilize the rules of grammar of one's primary language.

The __________ is a reading instruction method in which children are provided meaningful children's literature. This method emphasizes comprehension of the material rather than stressing phonetics.

Preoperational thought is to ____________as concrete operational thought is____________

Today most schools districts have students take __________on a regular basis so that individual scores can be compared to published norms.

Jamal counts the number of cookies on the table. He tells his dad that there are seven. His dad then puts the cookies in a heap and asks Jamal how many there are now. Jamal immediately answers seven. Jamal is most likely in Piaget's____________ stage.

__________ tests are measures of specific information which has been directly taught in school. These tests allow for a comparison of individual children's performance to published norms.

Kevin understands that the sentence "the girl is petting the cat" is the same idea as 'the cat is being petted by the girl." Kevin is at least

Present the three types of intelligence proposed by Sternberg. Provide a definition and an example of each one.

__________ is the Piagetian term for development within a stage.

__________ individuals are those that demonstrate superior abilities such as very high IQ scores, creativity, or a specific talent.

____________is one idea of grammar children develop in middle childhood.

Children who have __________disorders are the second largest group currently receiving special education services at school in the United States.

Due to logistical and financial concerns, most children in the United States who are not native- English speakers are enrolled in__________ classes.

Roberta is attending a school where the teachers begin reading instruction by having the children learn to make sounds that correspond to each particular letter of the alphabet. The school Roberta is attending is employing the__________ method.

Present a contemporary definition of giftedness. What characteristics did the Terman (1925) study find correlated with children who had high IQ scores? According to Sternberg, what are the failures of giftedness programs in the United States country-region?

Ms. Jones told her fifth-grade students to write down as many ways they could think of to use a car tire. Which one of the following types of thinking is Ms. Jones requiring of her students?

__________ is the practicing of educating children with disabilities in the regular class for the entire school day.