Exam 8: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

If you were to observe a sample of brain tissue that was mostly composed of myelin and contained relatively few cell bodies, you would refer to this type of brain tissue as:

Suppose you line up two rows of marbles, each of which has 6 marbles in it. In Row A, the marbles are spaced closely together; in Row B, the marbles are spread out farther apart. If you asked a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old, "Which row has more marbles?" you should expect the 5-year-old to say __________ and the 8-year-old to say _____________.

According to Carol Dweck, which of the following statements represents the most effective way to praise a child?

Because of the way that Body Mass Index (BMI) is calculated, highly muscular athletes will necessarily have a low BMI.

The most prevalent chronic disease among children living in the United States is ___________; and the percentage of children affected by this disease is ____________.

If Greg is 10 years old, and if he answers the same number of intelligence test questions correctly as the average 9-year-old, his computed IQ would be:

If an applied behavior analysis approach is used to treat ADHD, it would likely include all of the following except:

Suppose that 7-year-old Anna is having trouble learning to read in school. Her teacher investigates how her family encourages reading, how her friends interact with her during play, and how she uses oral language to communicate. The teacher concludes that her reading will likely develop in its own time, and encourages Anna to continue to interact verbally. The teacher's approach would be very compatible with which of the following points of view?

According to Sternberg's model, the capacity to adapt to the environment is called:

Martinez teaches third-grade physical education. To meet national health objectives, he should try to engage students in active physical exercise for at least what percent of their time in his physical education class?

Suppose you learn that two children, a 10-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl, have brains of quite different sizes, with the boy's brain being about 40% larger than the girl's brain. Which of the following conclusions would be the best to draw from this data?

According to Carol Dweck, children with a "performance" motivation generally persist longer at difficult tasks.

If a child has a performance motivation and fails at a task, what is the most likely result, according to Carol Dweck:

Suppose you walk into a typical 6th grade classroom in a predominantly White, middle-class, suburban school in the United States. If the children there are typical, about what percent would you expect to be wearing glasses or contact lenses to improve their vision?

In a study investigating the time public school teachers spend in various classroom activities, teachers were found to spend about ____ % of the time in a 30-minute lesson on academic work.

Control processes are strategies and techniques that enhance __________.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three factors considered in making a diagnosis of intellectual disability?

According to Carol Dweck, which of the following statements represents the MOST effective way to praise a child:

Who proposed the triarchic concept of intelligence?

Higher level cognitive functions, such as attention, emotion, language, and memory, are thought to be associated most closely to activity in: