Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Edgar is a 7-year-old boy who feels extremely sleepy during the daytime. He is unable to concentrate during class and while playing. As a result, his grades are poor, and his teachers often scold him. Identify the sleep problem from which Edgar is most likely suffering.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018) has established categories for obesity, overweight, and at risk of being overweight. Describe how these categories are determined and classified.

The leading cause of death in young children in 2015 in the United States was

Jean Berko's experiment involving "wugs" demonstrated that young children who took part in the experiment knew

Debra is a very active child. She loves to tumble and show off. She always tries, what her parents consider, hair-raising stunts. She also loves running and believes she can run faster than her parents. This type of activity level and confidence is most characteristic of

Critics of universal preschool education argue that

Wendy, a 4-year-old girl, decides to gift her father a teddy bear on his birthday because she likes teddy bears. She asks her elder brother to help her wrap the gift. She does not consider the fact that her father may not like the gift or have no use for it. In the context of cognitive development in early childhood, this scenario illustrates

Which of the following was cited by Zigler and his colleagues supporting universal preschool in the United States?

Vygotsky believed that children construct knowledge through

Which of the following refers to teachers' adjustment of their level of support and guidance to the level of the skills of their students?

According to McClelland and others (2017) and Schmitt and others (2017), ________ attention involves action planning, allocating attention to goals, error detection and compensation, monitoring progress on tasks, and dealing with novel or difficult circumstances.

When experimenters ask children to judge whether two complex pictures are the same, preschool children tend to use a haphazard comparison strategy, not examining all of the details before making a judgment. The children exhibit a lack of

Four-year-old Nathan is good at stacking blocks to make tall structures. However, he knocks them down occasionally. Which of the following is the most likely reason for this?

Which of the following results of research studies on children's sleep is true?

Which of the following statements is true of short-term memory?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018), a person with a body mass index (BMI) at the 90th percentile is

In a Tools of the Mind classroom, ________ has a central role.

Recently, four expert panels from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States issued physical activity guidelines for young children that were quite similar (Pate & others, 2015). The guidelines recommend that young children engage in about ________ of physical activity per day total.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018) has established categories for weight that are determined by body mass index. Children and adolescents at or above the 97th percentile are classified as ________.

Research with the memory-span task suggests that