Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood

Jean Piaget believed that children below the age of _______ years do not have concrete operational thought.

What is the second most common cause of death for the child in middle childhood?

How is IQ measured?

To understand how a family tree showing relationships among relatives works,children must be able to use the skill of:

Currently,researchers are considering all of the following as possible causes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),EXCEPT:

Which public service announcement would be most beneficial in preventing cultural-familial retardation?

On average,children grow _______ inches per year during middle and late childhood.

Quentin has been diagnosed with a relatively mild autism spectrum disorder.He often engages in repetitive routines,and he is preoccupied with airplanes.He studies them constantly,reads books and watches documentaries,and makes his father take him to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. ,every summer.Quentin might be most aptly diagnosed with:

Eight-year-old Joshua is obese.His excess weight puts him at risk for all of the following,EXCEPT:

A way of teaching children how to read that is based on the idea that instruction should parallel children's natural language learning.

Problem-solving skills and the ability to learn from and adapt to life's everyday experiences.

The author of your text proposed several strategies to try to get children to exercise more.List at least two ways to get children to exercise more.

Early intervention programs designed to help provide an intellectually stimulating environment for children have been found to be most effective for:

Experts suggest that it takes approximately ______ years for an immigrant child to learn to speak English proficiently,and approximately ____ years for that same child to learn to read English proficiently.

Mimi looks at her mother and says,"Grandma can't be your mother,because she is my grandmother." Mimi does not yet understand:

A dimension that distinguishes attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)from learning disability is:

Knowing about knowing is referred to as:

In contrast to the study of information processing,the study of intelligence is more likely to involve the concept of:

Julio understands that although he is older than his brother,he is younger than his sister.This is because Julio understands:

Who among the following would have good spatial abilities?