Exam 12: Seciton 3: Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development

By the end of middle childhood, the capacity of long-term memory is _____.

When TIMSS experts recorded math teachers in the United States, Germany, and Japan, what did they find?

Critics say that _____ weaken public schools, but advocates argue that they increase competition between public and private schools and lead to a better education for all.

Important to long-term memory is _____.

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

Mastery of pragmatics allows children to change styles of speech, or "codes," depending on the audience. What code are children likely to use with their teachers?

Traditionally in the United States, most private schools were operated by _____.

Children from low-SES families usually have all of the following compared to children from higher-SES families EXCEPT _____.

Alice is 7 years old and comes from a low-SES family. Compared to her peers from higher-SES families, she has difficulty with language learning in school. According to current research, one factor that may be contributing to Alice's language learning difficulty is her lack of _____.

A child yells out, "Yo dude! Did you see that bad shooting star?" The child is likely speaking to his _____.

Siegler has studied the day-by-day details of children's cognition in math. He has found that children _____.

At what age is a child likely to understand what the word "unbreakable" means?

A child's achievement seems more influenced by _____ in the United States than in other nations.

What is the primary international test of science and math?

Carlos attends a school where the teachers often work longer hours, and where students come from a wide geographical area. The class sizes are also small. He knows that the school sets its own standards and receives private money and sponsors. Carlos is attending a _____ school.

The research on methods for teaching a second language reveals _____.

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

The unspoken and often unrecognized lessons that children learn in school, which are the unofficial, unstated, or implicit rules and priorities that influence the academic curriculum and every other aspect of learning in school, are called the _____.

Jared, who speaks only English, has moved to Spain with his family. He attends a public school. All of his school subjects are taught in Spanish. Jared is learning Spanish through _____.