Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood

Which of the following is a type of intelligence identified in Robert J.Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?

Julie has an IQ of 50.She lives in a group home and works at a recycling plant,sorting cans and bottles into bins.Overall,Julie functions at the level of a second-grader.Julie's level of mental retardation is considered:

Defining words becomes a regular part of classroom discourse,and children increase their knowledge of _____ as they study and talk about the components of sentences,such as subjects and verbs.

If the word "win" is on a list of words a child is asked to remember,the child might think of the last time he won a pony race with a friend.This is an example of:

The _____ approach stresses that reading instruction should parallel a child's natural language learning.

Moira's teacher asks her to put sticks in order from smallest to largest.The cognitive ability to order stimuli along a quantitative dimension is known as _____.

Patrick is an experienced farmer who is very good at his job.According to Howard Gardner,which of the following types of intelligence is Patrick most likely to score highly on?

.This theorist described three criteria that characterize gifted children,whether in art,music,or academic domains.

.A theory that states that memory is best understood by considering two types of memory representation: verbatim memory trace and gist.

With regard to the cognitive development theory,Piaget proposed that the concrete operational stage lasts from approximately _____ years of age.

Those individuals who have IQs of 55 to 70 fall into the _____ category of mental retardation.

Kim's mom wants to improve the cognitive inhibitory control of her 7-year-old daughter.Kim's mom should encourage her daughter to:

About _____ percent of the mentally retarded are in the severe category,with IQs of _____.

Dual-language instruction,formerly known as bilingual education,involves:

A process called _____ involves understanding how to use language in culturally appropriate ways.

_____ is a severe developmental disorder that has its onset in the first three years of life and includes deficiencies in social relationships,abnormalities in communication,and restricted,repetitive,and stereotyped patterns of behavior.

Michael Pressley believes that the key to education is helping students to:

Children with ADHD may benefit from all of the following interventions EXCEPT:

Children with cancer:

One in every _____ children in the United States develops cancer before the age of 19.