Exam 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Researchers who have studied the effects of video games on children's development have noted that all the following are associated with playing video games EXCEPT

Which of the following is the best example of a child's use of deductive logic?

Boys tend to achieve fine motor coordination more rapidly than girls do.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder has been differentiated into two types on the basis of children's

Typically, children over the age of 8 understand the difference between statements such as "It is on your left" or "It is on your right."

According to Robert Siegler, children's rules for problem-solving emerge from their specific experiences.

Concrete operations permit children to understand

Limited English proficient (LEP) students do not have a greater rate of school failure as long as

Which of the following is the best example of a child's use of inductive logic?

Which of the following is NOT an example of the language achievements that first occur during middle childhood?

Parents who want to help an obese child lose weight should put the child on a weight-loss diet.

Daniel Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence relates all of the following components to the achievement of intellectual potential EXCEPT

Zana, age 8, knows everything there is to know about Egypt. She loves to read about the pyramids, pharaohs, burial rites, and so forth. Zana's passion about Egypt has allowed her to accumulate "expert" knowledge on the subject. All of the following statements about the effects of expertise are true EXCEPT:

Researchers in Ontario have been investigating the association between sleep problems and ADHD. Which is NOT a finding of their study?

Daniel Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence is supported by the fact that children's ability to control their emotions in childhood is strongly related to measures of academic achievement in high school.

When treating a child with ADHD, it can be said that medication can help with all of the following concerns to some degree EXCEPT

The ability to focus cognitive activity on the important elements of a problem or situation is known as

A child who understands conservation of mass or volume would, of necessity, understand

During middle childhood, girls have better fine motor coordination than boys because girls' wrists mature more rapidly than boys' wrists.

To help himself remember the names of the planets in the order of their distance from the sun, Ali uses the first letter of the name of each planet to create a nonsense word. This is an example of an information-processing strategy known as