Exam 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Ms.Dockery believes that from the beginning,children should be exposed to text in its complete form-stories,poems,letters,posters,and lists.She feels that as long as reading is kept whole and meaningful,children will be motivated to discover the specific skills they need.Ms.Dockery supports the __________ approach to teaching beginning reading.

Which statement about children's map-making abilities is true?

Which statement is true about African-American English?

Which statement about the impact of culture and schooling on concrete operational thought is accurate?

To test for __________,Piaget asked children to arrange sticks of different lengths from shortest to longest.

Dramatic generational IQ gains are greatest on tests of __________.

__________ are exposed to more than 4 million words per year.

Middle-ear infections become __________ frequent in middle childhood because the Eustachian tube becomes __________.

Children in middle childhood are in Piaget's __________ stage,which extends from about 7 to 11 years.

With regard to teaching mathematics,most experts agree that __________.

U.S.legislation mandates that schools place children who require special supports for learning in __________.

The information-processing perspective __________.

Eight-year-old Miles has confidence in his own ability.When he faces a spelling test,he believes that he can practice spelling the words and he will do well on the test.Miles has developed __________.

Which intellectual factor of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales,Fifth Edition,is the most likely to contain culturally biased problems?

Magnet schools are __________.

In social-constructivist classrooms,__________.

The Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler intelligence tests __________.

Some investigators have concluded that the forms of logic required by Piagetian tasks do not emerge spontaneously but,rather,are __________.

Robbie Case proposed that change within each Piagetian stage and movement between stages are largely due to __________.

School-age children master concrete operational tasks __________.