Exam 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

In middle childhood, development of the ability to read well would be least influenced by

Automaticity is the ability to recall information from long-term memory without using short-term memory capacity.

In Canada, program accommodation in the school system consists of integrating children with special needs into regular classrooms.

Which of the following statements is true regarding weight loss diets for children?

If you had been a guidance counsellor at an elementary school for a number of years, what pattern would you most likely have observed with regard to sex differences in the cognitive achievements of your pupils?

Recent studies in Canada have shown that girls outperform boys in reading, writing, and math.

Sleep-deprived children display many characteristics of ADHD (such as, hyperactivity, lack of coordination, and learning difficulty), and they are often misdiagnosed.

In Canadian school systems, disorders such as ADHD, autism, deafness, gifted intellectual ability, blindness, and so forth are categorized as

Which of the following is a component of Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?

If a child can correctly answer the question "What is 8 times 8?" without pausing to calculate the answer, the child is demonstrating the cognitive skill of metacognition.

Most developmental psychologists agree that the basis of children's cognitive development is

To be considered obese, Body Mass Index (BMI) must be above the ________ for a child's sex and age.

Improvements in logic and planning during middle childhood occur as a result of growth of the frontal lobes of the brain.

When the teacher asked, "How many metres is 300 centimetres?" Carmen answered "three" without having to pause to compute the number of centimetres in a metre. Carmen's skill is an example of the cognitive ability of

When Jim and his friends want to build a treehouse, it is Jim who figures out the strategies for getting the building materials up into the tree. Robert Sternberg would say that Jim is demonstrating ________ intelligence.

Many Aboriginal languages are now extinct or lost due to the lack of heritage-language legislation and policies in Canada.

According to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, intrapersonal intelligence is the ability to understand oneself.

Writing tests in their home language is a legitimate educational support for LEP students in their transition to English-only instruction.

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the impacts or benefits of learning another language?

According to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, intrapersonal intelligence refers to sensitivity to the behaviour, moods, and needs of others.