Exam 8: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Which of the following is NOT a common symptom typically associated with ADHD?

Strategies, such as mental imagery and scripts, which elementary schoolchildren use to help them remember things are called:

For reasons that remain unclear, up to 80% of children with learning disorders are _____.

The whole-language approach to literacy emphasizes that learning to read is an entirely different task than learning to speak.

According to Piaget, what would be the best way to teach children in kindergarten about the mathematical concept of addition:

Maria is asked to create and tell a story about how a lost dog was able to find its home. She talks and talks about the dog, and about its home, but is never able to figure out how to end the story or what would be required to make the story complete. In terms of her control processes, her problem in finishing her work would be described as a failure of:

The first tests of intelligence were developed in France by:

What is an "IEP":

The major advantage of using the ratio method of computing IQ, rather than reporting only a child's mental age, is which of the following?

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

In a study of severely impoverished Romanian children who were adopted into British families, a particular adjustment problem was seen among several of the children. This problem centered on the Romanian children's difficulties with:

In Piaget's terms, the type of thought that is characteristic of children during the elementary school years is called:

If a 5-year-old girl watches an adult pour juice from a tall, thin glass into a short, wide glass, and then she is asked, "Which glass has more juice?" she would typically:

Lynn tells the teacher, "I don't care if I learn anything; I just want to get an A." According to research conducted by Carol Dweck, you should conclude that Lynn has what type of motivation?

The best way of understanding the relationship between genetic and environmental influences on the development of intelligence is to conclude that:

Control processes are strategies and techniques that enhance __________.

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

If all you know about Rashon is that he is a typical 6-year-old, you would guess that his thinking is undergoing a transition between which of Piaget's stages?

Who proposed a theory of intelligence that identified eight distinct intelligences, including linguistic intelligence and logical-mathematical intelligence?

Which of the following is the primary goal of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA):