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

The Education for All Handicapped Children Act,enacted in 1975,required that:

A child with an IQ of _____ or higher is considered to be gifted.

A recent study found that children with a high body mass index and waist circumference are at risk for _____ syndrome,a constellation of factors,including obesity,high blood pressure,and type II diabetes.

Sandra,9,was always behind in class because she could only write very slowly,and even then her painstaking efforts would be virtually illegible and riddled with spelling mistakes.Her teacher referred her to a psychologist who diagnosed her with a learning disability called:

Which theory states that memory is best understood by considering two types of memory representation-verbatim memory trace and gist?

Identify and describe the most common type of cancer in children.

According to the fuzzy trace theory,the _____ consists of the precise details of the information.

Paul is a gifted pianist.He was always highly motivated to learn and become an artist of consummate skill.According to his mother,Paul always showed an intense and obsessive interest in learning the instrument.He was always self-motivated and never needed to be "pushed" by his parents.What characteristic,as described by Ellen Winner,of gifted children is Paul exhibiting?

Three-year-old Jared was taken to the doctor by his parents who were concerned by his seeming lack of attachment to those around him.Jared hardly spoke at all and spent all day preoccupied with bouncing his ball off a wall.After a thorough investigation,his pediatrician diagnosed him with:

Identify the disability in which individuals consistently show problems in one or more of these areas: inattention,hyperactivity,and impulsivity.

_____ develop(s)more rapidly during early childhood,and _____ develop(s)more rapidly during middle and late childhood.

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

A learning disability:

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

From the following options identify the disorder that consists of serious,persistent problems involving relationships,aggression,depression,and fears associated with personal or school matters,as well as other inappropriate socioemotional characteristics.Approximately eight percent of children who have a disability and require an individualized education plan fall into this classification.

Byron can take sticks of different lengths and put them all in order from shortest to longest.He can also discern that if stick A is longer than B and B is longer than C,then A is longer than C This ability to logically combine relations to understand certain conclusions is:

Compared with novices,experts have:

If we look at Madeline's mental age and divide it by her chronological age,and then multiply it by 100,we are calculating her _____.

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.

Compare and contrast convergent thinking with divergent thinking.