Exam 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Mariana knows that when she goes to the movies she'll wait in line,buy her ticket,go to the concession stand for a two gallon bucket of popcorn and a drink,and then go into the theater to watch the film.This information is stored in Mariana's _____ memory.

Adnan trades Umar 100 pennies for 10 dimes.Later,when Adnan wants to trade back,Umar refuses,because he says he has much more money than Adnan,and won't trade for only 10 puny dimes.Apparently,Umar has not yet mastered

Louis L.Thurstone argued that intelligence was made up of

Robert Sternberg argues that intelligence is made up of

Monisha is 7 years old.It is likely that she'll be able to hold approximately _____ numbers in her working memory.

Ippolit's teacher shows him a card with the words zoo,animals,lions,tigers,seals,moose,bears,wolves,elephants,and chimps printed on it.Then she takes away the list of words and asks him to remember as many of them as he can.Ippolit remembers some of the words,but also says that he remembers the word "monkeys." Ippolit's teacher is using the _____ procedure to test his memory.

Studies have shown that reducing the number of children in a classroom

Louis Terman (1947)found that extremely gifted children

We say that a test is _____ if it provides an accurate measure of what it is supposed to measure.

The performance scale of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-III)includes items that measure

_____ is an aspect of giftedness that is measured by IQ tests.

Sigmund can make anyone feel better.He has a knack for knowing how his friends feel and saying just the right thing.Howard Gardner would probably say that Sigmund has a great deal of _____ intelligence.

_____ is not considered a possible solution for improving educational success in middle childhood.

Children suffering from _____ have an abnormal change in one of the genes on their X chromosome.

The _____ approach for teaching children to read emphasizes learning to understand words based on their context in speech or on a page.

Changing curricula to include more art,music,and cultural studies

Andrei has a spelling test tomorrow.Tonight,he's practicing spelling each word over and over again,hoping that this will help him remember their spellings for tomorrow's test.Andrei's strategy is called

The _____ approach to understanding children's intelligence is based on the use of standardized tests.

Even though Jacinto can't tell you his friend Maxmiliao's IM address,his fingers always seem to punch it in correctly when he's holding his Blackberry.The address seems to be stored in Jacinto's _____ memory.

In general,large-scale observations of elementary school classrooms have found that