Exam 8: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

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?

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

If you were interested in increasing the self-esteem of grade school students, and you wanted to promote effective learning, you should recommend using all of the following techniques EXCEPT:

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

Today, about 1 in __ U.S. children has some form of autism spectrum disorder

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?

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 categories of mental retardation would include the largest number of individuals?

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

What is the number one cause of death in middle childhood?

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

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

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.

Generalizing from conclusions drawn in the text, if you were to advise a new elementary school teacher about how she would spend her time, you would suggest that she try to ________ her time spent on classroom management and __________ her time spent on teaching and learning activities.

The cause that produces an intellectual disability can be determined in about what percent of such cases?

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

At what age does the human brain reach 95% of its adult size?

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:

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