Exam 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood

Howard Gardner suggests that there are _____ types of intelligence.

Emily has the ability to think about things in novel and unusual ways; this allows her to come up with unique solutions to problems.This ability is called _____.

Which of the following is TRUE of giftedness?

Children who have reached the concrete operational stage are capable of _____,which is the ability to order stimuli along a quantitative dimension.

Terrence has a learning disability that involves difficulty in math computation.This disability is also known as a developmental arithmetic disorder.Identify Terrence's condition.

Approximately _____ percentage of children with a learning disability have a reading problem.

Which of the following statements about children who are bilingual is NOT true?

_____ refers to a technique in which individuals are encouraged to come up with creative ideas in a group,play off each other's ideas,and say almost anything that comes to mind.

Which of the following is a strategy for improving children's memory skills?

Sergio's mental age is 8,but his chronological age is 9,we would say that Sergio's IQ is:

_____ thinking characterizes the kind of thinking that is required on conventional tests of intelligence.

Gertrude,9,has been placed in the 98th percentile in terms of her BMI.Her doctor would likely tell her parents that she is:

The idea that gifted children are maladjusted is a _____,as Lewis Terman found when he conducted an extensive study of 1,500 children whose Stanford-Binet IQs averaged _____.

Which of the following is the second leading cause of death in U.S.children 5 to 14 years of age?

Damon's teachers frequently complain that he disrupts his kindergarten class by fidgeting and moving about all the time.He does not pay any attention to what is being taught in class and behaves impulsively.Considering the presence of the tell-tale characteristics of inattention,hyperactivity,and impulsivity,Damon's pediatrician diagnosed him with _____ and put him on a combination of Ritalin and behavior therapy.

What are the barriers to creating culture-fair tests?

What causes the autism spectrum disorders?

During elementary school years,head circumference and waist circumference:

Boys are estimated to be _____ more likely to have autism spectrum disorders than girls are.

A child is presented with two identical balls of clay.The experimenter rolls one ball into a long,thin shape; the other remains in its original ball form.The child is then asked if there is more clay in the ball or in the long,thin piece of clay.If the child answers the problem correctly,but cannot use abstract reasoning yet,the child most likely is in which stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory?