Exam 8: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Most children with dyslexia have problems with their visual system.

According to the text, most of the fine motor skills required for writing develop between the ages of:

Today, in developed economies about _______ of adolescents can read; in sub-Saharan Africa, this percentage is about _______:

Memory for routine events, such as getting ready for bed, is most likely to be organized by using:

Heidi has a series of events that she follows every morning: she takes a shower, dresses, eats breakfast, and rides the bus to school. Her memory of this sequence of events would most likely be organized in the form of:

The term literacy refers to:

Which of the following people would be most likely to get an erroneous estimate of obesity when using the BMI method of calculation?

The process in which specific functions, such as speech, develop in specific regions of the brain is called:

Why has the ratio method of computing IQ been replaced by the deviation method?

Generalizing from research cited in the text, if a high-achieving child suddenly began to focus on social popularity rather than academic achievement, the best guess is that this child was:

Which of the following changes is characteristic of the transition from Piaget's preoperational stage into the stage of concrete operations?

Jill is extremely inattentive, has poor impulse control, and is highly active. Based on these symptoms, what developmental disorder might Jill have?

Todd's father is at his ideal weight, but his mother is obese. Generalizing from research presented in the text, what chance does Todd have of becoming obese?

Even when social and economic disparities are taken into account, there still is a large difference in the average IQ scores of minority and majority groups.

About what percent of the U. S. population would have IQ scores that would fall between 85 and 115?

Based on average school performance of boys and girls, if you knew that a student was especially interested and talented in mathematics, you would conclude that this student is more likely to be a _______; if you knew that a student was especially interested and talented in literature and language, you would conclude that this student is more likely to be a ________.

Many children with attention-deficit disorder are also:

The text discusses a study in which African American families in poor neighborhoods were given a chance to move to a better neighborhood. In comparison to children whose families moved instead to another poor neighborhood, the children in families who moved to a better neighborhood:

Suppose you are playing with a 6-year-old child and you ask the child to draw three different shapes: a triangle, a circle, and a square. Which shape would you expect the child to have the most difficulty drawing?

According to whole-language theory, the skills associated with oral and written language acquisition develop over a period of years, beginning in: