Exam 8: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

One goal for constructing an intelligence test is to write the test such that if a person took it multiple times, that person's score would always be the same. This goal represents the concept of test:

Which of the following types of intelligence did Robert Sternberg view as being particularly important?

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:

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

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:

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

The disorder characterized by disturbances in social interaction, communication, and behavior is:

According to research conducted by Carol Dweck, boys are more motivated by an orientation that emphasizes __________, whereas girls are more motivated by an orientation that emphasizes _________.

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

Generalizing from the text's discussion about the distribution of intelligence in the population, about what percept of the population would you expect to be diagnosed as having an intellectual disability?

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

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 _____________.

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:

The original purpose for developing the first intelligence tests in the early part of the twentieth century was:

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

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

Physical pain associated with rapid growth is both common and normal in middle childhood and adolescence.

Jude learns the concept of subtraction by forming a picture in his mind of removing blocks from one stack and adding them to another stack. His memory strategy is best considered an example of the use of:

According to the text, in Western nations, middle childhood extends from about age:

In Sternberg's model, the type of intelligence measured by typical IQ tests is called: