Exam 13: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Pablo,who speaks Spanish,is in a second-language education class where he interacts with English-speaking and Spanish-speaking students in both English and Spanish.This method of second-language education is best described as

Parents that are involved with their children's academics have children who achieve better.

Recent research on ADHD suggests that:

During a parent-teacher conference with the Smiths,Mrs.Thompson expresses concern about their daughter Mary's academic progress.Mary has fallen so far behind that Mrs.Thompson suggests the possibility of having Mary repeat fourth grade.The process of holding students back rather than passing them to the next grade is called

Memory improves in middle childhood due to the pruning of neurons in the prefrontal cortex.

Piaget proposed that moral reasoning develops in three stages.List each of the three stages,and note the corresponding age range of the children in each stage.Describe each stage by explaining how a child in that stage would solve a moral dilemma.

Regarding reading and comprehension in middle childhood,which of the following statements is correct?

The _____ is the most widely used intelligence test for school-age children today.

Metamemory is basically thinking about thinking.

_____ is the automatic advancement of children from one grade to another even if they do not meet academic standards for the grade they are leaving.

Molly,age 8,is shown a measuring cup full of cornmeal,which is then poured out onto a countertop and spread around.She is asked whether the spread-out cornmeal is the same as,or different from,the cornmeal when it was in the cup.Molly says,"It's just the same,because it's the same cornmeal." In Piaget's terminology,Molly understands the principle of

Research on gender differences in school performance indicates that girls tend to

In evaluating misbehavior,children in Piaget's first stage of moral reasoning are likely to

By age _______ years,children can typically determine whether a ball and a sausage are the same weight.This an example of a conservation of substance problem.

By the time a child reaches the first grade,scores on intelligence tests are

Which of the following environmental factors may have a negative effect on intelligence test scores?

_____ is the proficiency of reading and writing in two different languages.

Most research suggests that homework should be moderate and only used once a child is in high school.

Which word best describes Sternberg's experiential element of intelligence?

Research indicates that few children before the age of _______ years can solve simple story problems involving addition in which the starting amount is unknown.