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

Amber is given a Stanford-Binet intelligence test.Her mental age is determined to be 14 and her chronological age is 10.Which of the following is true of Amber?

The type of thinking that produces many answers to the same question is called ________ thinking.This kind of thinking characterizes creativity.

Sally's mental age is 12,but her chronological age is 10.Sally's IQ 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 _____.

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

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

Knowledge about memory is known as:

Alberta is a school teacher who introduces children to reading by teaching them a rhyme that goes "A for apple,A says ah,B for ball,B says buh," and so on.This exemplifies the _____ approach to reading instruction.

Organic intellectual disability is caused by:

The improvement of fine motor skills during middle and late childhood is a reflection of:

Identify the theorist who distinguished between convergent thinking and divergent thinking.

Which of the following statements about children and cardiovascular disease is true?

Which of the following statements represents the current thinking among increasing numbers of experts in the field of reading?

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.

Nathan Brody and many other researchers have observed that people who excel at one type of intellectual task are:

Which of the following is TRUE of children with cultural-familial intellectual disability?

The number of children diagnosed and treated for ADHD has _____ in recent decades.

Research indicates that it is unlikely learning disabilities:

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

By the time children are 11 years old,their vocabulary has increased to approximately: