Exam 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Which of the following statements accurately describes the impact of gender differences on physical growth during the middle childhood years?​

Which of the following is a factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an advantage for test takers from certain cultural backgrounds?​

Overweight children excel in sports and are considered attractive in adolescence.

Which of the following statements is true of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?​

Intelligence quotient is the _____.

_________ requires the performance of fine motor skills.

Describe Piaget's concrete-operational stage.

Which of the following is the brain chemical that promotes the brain's control over more primitive functions?

Which of the following is a difference between the judgements made at preconventional level and the judgements made at postconventional level of reasoning?​

Which of the following is a useful strategy for promoting memory?​

Which of the following statements best describes the word-recognition method?​

Growth spurt is the period during which growth advances at a dramatically rapid rate compared with other periods.

Sean's mental age is 15 and his chronological age is 10. Which of the following values will be his intelligence quotient(IQ)?​

Children in the concrete operational period of development can focus on more than one dimension of a problem at a time.

A child understands that if an elephant is bigger than a bear and a bear is bigger than a cat, then an elephant is bigger than a cat. This demonstrates the child's understanding of _________.

Which of the following statements is true of creative children?​

According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, children in the conventional level base their moral judgments on the consequences of behavior.

Which of the following statements is true of the elaborative strategy?​

_________ is the ability to do things that are novel and useful.

According to Piaget's theory of moral development, children in the stage of autonomous morality believe in the principle of immanent justice.