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

If intelligence is assumed to be normally distributed,which of the following would you expect to find in the overall population?

Mental age (MA)is:

The type of thinking that produces many answers to the same question is called:

The _____ not only provide an overall IQ score,but they also yield several composite indexes that allow the examiner to quickly determine the areas in which a child is strong or weak.

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

What is the exact term for a condition of limited mental ability in which the individual (1)has a low IQ,usually below 70 on a traditional intelligence test; (2)has difficulty adapting to the demands of everyday life; and (3)first exhibits these characteristics by age 18?

Samuel,8,has difficulty in one or more basic numerical skills.His physician diagnosed him as suffering from a learning disability called _____,or developmental arithmetic disorder.

Discuss height and weight changes that take place during middle and late childhood.

Ellen Winner described three criteria that characterize gifted children.Which of the following was NOT one of these criteria?

Colin does not earn high grades on standardized tests but has a black belt in martial arts.According to Gardner,Colin has _____ skills.

Considering how early intervention programs to improve intellectual development-such as the Abecedarian Intervention program-have shown marked improvements in the IQ of participants,it can be inferred that the main reason children from low SES families earn lower scores on IQ tests is that:

Identify the theorist who developed the triarchic theory of intelligence.

Most people who suffer from organic intellectual disability have IQs between _____.

Ethan is a gifted 14-year-old who excels academically and has an IQ of 140.In the light of the findings from Lewis Terman's study of high IQ children,it is likely that Ethan is:

Marshall writes very slowly and his handwriting is virtually illegible.He also makes numerous spelling errors because of his inability to match up sounds and letters.Marshall likely suffers from _____.

A person's mental age divided by chronological age (CA)and multiplied by 100 would indicate that person's:

Children with cancer:

From the following,identify an important difference between the reasoning of children and the reasoning of scientists.

Robert J.Sternberg's triarchic theory and Howard Gardner's theory of intelligence are examples of the idea that:

Discuss the key features of Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA).