Exam 12: Seciton 4: Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development

Control processes include emotional regulation, selective attention, and metacognition.

Justino, a student from Brazil, is enrolled in an immersion class in the United States. This means that all instruction is conducted in English.

To retain information in working memory, individuals must merely be exposed to the information.

A body of knowledge in a particular area that makes it easier to master new information in that area is referred to as knowledge foundation.

Approximately 1 in 10 children in the United States is home-schooled.

The ability to understand and use metaphors results from a level of cognitive development that is typically attained during middle childhood.

A school funded by tuition charges, endowments, and often religious or other nonprofit sponsors is a voucher school.

If Beth is taking the main international test of science and math she is taking the PIRLS.

School-age children are able to use logic about concrete things.

The memory system in which signals are held for a split second is called sensory memory.

Aaron made two lines of toys with trucks in one line and cars in another. Aaron was exhibiting classification.

Piaget called the cognition of middle childhood preconcrete operational thought.

The PIRLS is the main international test of reading given to students.

The hidden curriculum includes explicitly stated rules that influence aspects of learning.

The part of the memory-processing system in which current, conscious mental activity occurs is known as long-term memory.

More than 95 percent of the world's 7-year-olds are in school.

The information-processing theory was inspired by the knowledge of how animals' brains function.