Question 1

Briefly describe the three types of learning disabilities. Discuss the various treatment options. Do you think that educators treat learning disabilities appropriately? Provide reasons for your answer.

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Question 2

Jana's doctor is treating her for ADHD. Which of the following treatment plans would her doctor most likely recommend to achieve better results?

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A)  a combination of stimulant medication and sedatives 
B)  primarily stimulant medication 
C)  primarily behavior management 
D)  a combination of stimulant medication and behavior management

Question 3

Dana and Delma are discussing gender and the identification of learning disabilities. Dana believes that there is evidence that supports that gender does play a role in identifying learning disabilities, whereas Delma opposes this view. Which of the following statements, if true, would support Dana's view?

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A)  Boys have a greater biological vulnerability for learning disabilities than girls. 
B)  Girls are more likely to be referred by teachers for treatment than boys. 
C)  Girls' education is given priority in schools and homes. 
D)  Learning disabilities are more difficult to detect in boys than in girls.

Question 4

Identify the theorist who developed the triarchic theory of intelligence.

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Question 5

It is considered difficult to create culture-fair intelligence tests because they

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A)  predominantly test the nonverbal skills of the test taker. 
B)  consider the values that are common to all test takers. 
C)  reflect the cultures of some test takers more than others. 
D)  use only standardized test items familiar to all test takers.

Question 6

The ________ not only provide an overall IQ score but also yield several composite indexes that allow the examiner to quickly determine the areas in which a child is strong or weak.

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A)  Wechsler scales 
B)  Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scales 
C)  Stanford-Binet tests 
D)  Apgar Scales

Question 7

Violet is teaching her 6-year-old child to write sentences. She notices that, most of the time, if he can't spell a word, he makes up his own spelling. Which of the following approaches should she follow to make her son a competent writer over time?

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A)  She should be overly concerned about how he forms letters and words and should send him for after-school coaching sessions. 
B)  She should discourage him from writing so that he knows he must pay more attention. 
C)  She should give him fewer writing opportunities and instructions so that he improves independently. 
D)  She should encourage him to apply what he has learned in one paper to another paper.

Question 8

Nathan Brody and many other researchers have observed that people who excel at one type of intellectual task are

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A)  likely to underperform in other tasks. 
B)  evidence that multiple-intelligence approaches are correct. 
C)  proof that intelligence is a number of specific abilities. 
D)  likely to excel at other tasks, too.

Question 9

Most people who suffer from organic intellectual disability have IQs between

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A)  0 to 50. 
B)  0 to 75. 
C)  0 to 90. 
D)  100 and above.

Question 10

Which of the following statements about IQ or intelligence is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Modifications in environment have no impact on one's IQ score. 
B)  Schooling has been shown to have no influence on intelligence. 
C)  The conception of intelligence is the same across cultures. 
D)  IQ scores have been rapidly increasing around the world.

Question 11

A child is presented with two identical balls of clay. The experimenter rolls one ball into a long, thin shape; the other remains in its original ball form. The child is then asked if there is more clay in the ball or in the long, thin piece of clay. If the child answers the problem correctly but cannot use abstract reasoning yet, the child most likely is in which stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory?

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A)  sensorimotor stage 
B)  preoperational stage 
C)  formal operational stage 
D)  concrete operational stage

Question 12

Sally's mental age is 12, but her chronological age is 10. Sally's IQ is ________.

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A)  200 
B)  100 
C)  80 
D)  120

Question 13

Amber is given a Stanford-Binet intelligence test. Her mental age is determined to be 14, and her chronological age is 10. Which of the following is true of Amber?

Accepted Answer

A)  Her IQ score is 86. 
B)  Her IQ score is about average. 
C)  Her IQ score is below the majority of the population. 
D)  Her IQ score is above the majority of the population.

Question 14

Howard Gardner suggests that there are ________ types of intelligence.

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A)  four 
B)  six 
C)  eight 
D)  eleven

Question 15

Which of the following statements about children who are bilingual is true?

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A)  Children who are bilingual have a larger vocabulary in each language than children who are monolingual. 
B)  Children who are bilingual are better at analytical reasoning than children who are monolingual. 
C)  Children who are bilingual are less conscious of the structure of spoken language than children who are monolingual. 
D)  Children who are bilingual have lower cognitive flexibility than children who are monolingual.

Question 16

Compare convergent thinking with divergent thinking. What are some of the causes of decline in creative thinking in children in the United States?

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Question 17

________ is a relatively mild autism spectrum disorder in which the child has relatively good verbal language skills, milder nonverbal language problems, and a restricted range of interests and relationships.

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A)  Asperger syndrome 
B)  Fragile X syndrome 
C)  Down syndrome 
D)  ICF syndrome

Question 18

Although Casey scores only about average on standardized intelligence tests, she is street-smart and has excellent social skills and good common sense. Given a problem, Casey will try her best to arrive at a solution. Most of her friends and family appreciate this about her as she seems to be able to find ways to get things done on her own. In the context of Sternberg's theories, she has ________ intelligence.

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A)  spatial 
B)  practical 
C)  analytical 
D)  interpersonal

Question 19

When no evidence of organic brain damage can be found, cases are labeled ________ intellectual disability. Individuals with this type of disability have IQs between 55 and 70.

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A)  pseudo-social 
B)  moderate 
C)  cultural-familial 
D)  severe

Question 20

If we look at Madeline's mental age and divide it by her chronological age and then multiply it by 100, we are calculating her ________.

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Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood