Exam 8: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Remembering the details about a family dinner, such as helping set the table, washing hands before eating, saying grace at the dinner table, eating the food, and clearing off the dishes, best illustrates what memory control process?

The text concludes that group learning has been found to positively affect students' self-esteem, especially when the students are:

The terms that describes a person's ability to monitor his or her own thinking is called metacognition.

The text states that there has been a gradual evolution in how mental retardation is regarded. In general, what change is at the center of that evolution in thinking?

The essential idea encompassed by the term emergent literacy is that:

According to the Surgeon General's report, about what percent of children and adolescents age 9 to 17 are estimated to have mental disorders with at least mild functional impairment?

Addition and subtraction math problems rely on a child's ability to understand which of the following Piagetian concepts?

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.

26 Generalizing from data presented in the text, which of the following children would have the greatest chance of suffering from asthma?

Piaget's theory of cognitive development suggests that elementary school education should:

6 Based on information presented in the text, which of the following individuals would you expect to have the largest brain, as measured by brain size (or volume)?

Which of the following is NOT one of the four aspects of physical fitness conditioning?

Children with dyslexia have difficulty:

During adolescence and adulthood, cognitive functions such as memory and judgment generally become more complex. According to the text, the neurological event most closely associated with such changes is:

Jack is 6 years old, but does not communicate with speech, is not able to interact with other children, does not engage in normal forms of social play, and seems caught up in his own internal world. The most likely diagnosis for Jack is:

Restructuring the material to be learned so that it is arranged categorically is the major feature of the control process called:

About what percent of U. S. school children today are receiving some sort of special educational service?

In a study of severely impoverished Romanian children who were adopted into British families, the group that showed the least amount of improvement was the group that was:

Which of the following statements best summarizes the findings about gender differences in school success:

Although in earlier decades, it was true that boys did better at quantitative and spatial tasks and girls did better at tasks involving verbal skills, today these gender differences have disappeared.