Question 1

Sigmund can make anyone feel better.He has a knack for knowing how his friends feel,and saying just the right thing.Robert Sternberg would probably say that Sigmund has a great deal of _____ intelligence.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

Results of the English and Romanian Adoptees Study seem to reveal that

Accepted Answer

A) environment has very little effect on intelligence. 
B) if orphaned children are adopted,their IQ scores will suffer. 
C) if orphaned children are not adopted,their IQ scores will suffer. 
D) early severe deprivation can have long-term effects on children's intelligence.

Question 3

In general,experts _____ than novices when solving problems in their areas of expertise.

Accepted Answer

A) are faster at processing information 
B) are better at chunking information 
C) have bigger working memories 
D) have bigger sensory memories

Question 4

Fred and Ricky are identical twins.Lucy and Ethel are fraternal twins.If intelligence is primarily a genetic trait,we would expect that

Accepted Answer

A) Lucy's and Ethel's IQ scores would be more similar to each other than Fred's IQ score would be to Ricky's. 
B) Fred's and Ricky's IQ scores would be more similar to each other than Lucy's IQ score would be to Ethel's. 
C) All four of the twins would have similarly close IQ scores. 
D) Fred and Ricky would both have lower IQ scores than either Lucy or Ethel.

Question 5

When her teacher asks the class who experimented with electricity while flying a kite during a thunderstorm,Zoe yells out,"Benjamin Franklin." Franklin's name and experiment were retrieved from Zoe's _____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A) declarative 
B) procedural 
C) verbatim 
D) gist

Question 6

Researchers who study gender differences in children's understanding of mathematics have found that

Accepted Answer

A) girls get better grades and do better on standardized tests than boys. 
B) girls get better grades,but do worse on standardized tests than boys. 
C) girls get worse grades,but do better on standardized tests than boys. 
D) girls get worse grades and do worse on standardized tests than boys.

Question 7

The most effective way to teach mathematical concepts to school-age children is to

Accepted Answer

A) make them practice each formula over and over until it becomes second nature. 
B) teach them to think of very complex problems as whole entities,which need to be solved in one step. 
C) teach only basic mathematical facts.The rest will come naturally as the children get older and more experienced. 
D) incorporate mathematical ideas into everyday activities such as games,cooking,and reading.

Question 8

Boris's teacher shows him a card with the words zoo,animals,lions,tigers,seals,moose,bears,wolves,elephants,and chimps printed on it.Then she takes away the list of words and asks him to remember as many of them as he can.Boris remembers some of the words,but also says that he remembers the word "monkeys." Boris's performance on this test demonstrates

Accepted Answer

A) that the information is stored in his procedural memory. 
B) that he suffers from horizontal decalage. 
C) that memory is constructive. 
D) the misinformation paradigm.

Question 9

When Wahchumyus first learns to play a new piece of music,he learns it note by note.This makes it hard to play because he has to keep looking at the score.After a while,he starts to put together several notes into musical phrases,so he is able to think of all the notes in that phrase as a single unit.This helps him keep more of the piece in his working memory.Wahchumyus is using a strategy called

Accepted Answer

A) decalage. 
B) chunking. 
C) seriation. 
D) transitive inference.

Question 10

The school psychologist,Dr.Nestor gives Argus a card with 60 rows of numbers.He tells Argus that two of the rows are the same,and all of the others are different.Argus has to find the two similar rows as fast as he can,on as many of the cards as he can,in a set amount of time.Dr.Nestor is using the _____ procedure to test Argus's processing speed.

Accepted Answer

A) cross-out 
B) Deese-Roediger-McDermott 
C) visual matching 
D) Brown-Peterson

Question 11

The textbook describes several different approaches to understanding intelligence.Describe the theory of intelligence that you believe is the most accurate,and explain why this is the best theory.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The textbook describes several different approaches to...

Question 12

The speed with which people can process information increases the most during

Accepted Answer

A) early childhood. 
B) middle childhood. 
C) adolescence. 
D) early adulthooD.

Question 13

Dominic uses a lot of slang when he talks to his friends.When he talks to his very picky fifth grade teacher,Dominic is careful to use much more formal language.Dominic seems to have mastered

Accepted Answer

A) code switching. 
B) phonics. 
C) mainstreaming. 
D) class inclusion.

Question 14

Ten-year-old Rana is watching as Zarina does the classical conservation of volume demonstration.When Zarina pours the water from a tall thin glass into a short wide one,Rana says that there's still the same amount of water because it could be poured back and forth all day.Rana has mastered

Accepted Answer

A) seriation. 
B) classification. 
C) transitive inference. 
D) reversibility.

Question 15

Yael's second grade class is about to have its picture taken for the school yearbook.The photographer asks everyone to line up with the shortest people in front and the tallest at the back.This is an example of

Accepted Answer

A) seriation. 
B) conservation. 
C) reversibility. 
D) classification.

Question 16

Barney loves being in his 5th grade debate club.He spends a lot of time putting together intricate arguments,and is very quick to see errors in his opponent's arguments.Robert Sternberg would probably say that Barney has a lot of _____ intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A) practical 
B) analytical 
C) creative 
D) linguistic

Question 17

The _____ refers to the fact that some children have advanced computers and access to the Internet at home,while others cannot afford to.

Accepted Answer

A) achievement gap 
B) Internet anomaly 
C) digital divide 
D) class struggle

Question 18

Akolo is trying to explain how to tie a necktie,but can't seem to find the right words.Instead,he simply ties his tie and says,"Like that." Akolo's knowledge of how to knot his tie is most likely stored in his _____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A) declarative 
B) procedural 
C) verbatim 
D) gist

Question 19

The accuracy of children's memories can be adversely affected by all of the following except

Accepted Answer

A) the use of neutral prompts. 
B) how much the child wants to please the questioner. 
C) how long ago an event actually happened. 
D) how a question is askeD.

Question 20

When scientists observe children's reasoning processes in order to understand how those processes actually work,they are using

Accepted Answer

A) transitive inference. 
B) the Brown-Peterson procedure. 
C) microgenetic analysis. 
D) the Deese-Roediger-McDermott procedure.

Exam 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Sigmund can make anyone feel better.He has a knack for knowing how his friends feel,and saying just the right thing.Robert Sternberg would probably say that Sigmund has a great deal of _____ intelligence.

Results of the English and Romanian Adoptees Study seem to reveal that

In general,experts _____ than novices when solving problems in their areas of expertise.

Fred and Ricky are identical twins.Lucy and Ethel are fraternal twins.If intelligence is primarily a genetic trait,we would expect that

When her teacher asks the class who experimented with electricity while flying a kite during a thunderstorm,Zoe yells out,"Benjamin Franklin." Franklin's name and experiment were retrieved from Zoe's _____ memory.

Researchers who study gender differences in children's understanding of mathematics have found that

The most effective way to teach mathematical concepts to school-age children is to

The textbook describes several different approaches to understanding intelligence.Describe the theory of intelligence that you believe is the most accurate,and explain why this is the best theory.

The speed with which people can process information increases the most during

Dominic uses a lot of slang when he talks to his friends.When he talks to his very picky fifth grade teacher,Dominic is careful to use much more formal language.Dominic seems to have mastered

Ten-year-old Rana is watching as Zarina does the classical conservation of volume demonstration.When Zarina pours the water from a tall thin glass into a short wide one,Rana says that there's still the same amount of water because it could be poured back and forth all day.Rana has mastered

Yael's second grade class is about to have its picture taken for the school yearbook.The photographer asks everyone to line up with the shortest people in front and the tallest at the back.This is an example of

Barney loves being in his 5th grade debate club.He spends a lot of time putting together intricate arguments,and is very quick to see errors in his opponent's arguments.Robert Sternberg would probably say that Barney has a lot of _____ intelligence.

The _____ refers to the fact that some children have advanced computers and access to the Internet at home,while others cannot afford to.

Akolo is trying to explain how to tie a necktie,but can't seem to find the right words.Instead,he simply ties his tie and says,"Like that." Akolo's knowledge of how to knot his tie is most likely stored in his _____ memory.

The accuracy of children's memories can be adversely affected by all of the following except

When scientists observe children's reasoning processes in order to understand how those processes actually work,they are using