Chapter 10, 11, & 12

Type ... diabetes is the result of a lack or production of insulin due to an overactive immune system.

1

The traditional criterion of giftedness is an IQ of ... or higher.

130

Children ages 6-11 typically gain between ... pounds per year.

5-7

What is learned helplessness?

A perception of complete lack of control in mastering a task

Use of the World Wide Web in classrooms ...

All of the above

Aggression is activated by ...

Amygdala

Epinephrine is used when children have ...

An anaphylactic reaction

... is a chronic lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways.

Asthma

Families with mixed parents: one or both parents remarried, bringing children of the former family into the new family are known as ...

Blended families

At about age 7, according to Piaget, children enter the ...

Concrete operations stage

School aged children are in Kohlberg's ____________ level of moral reasoning.

Conventional morality

A criticism of IQ tests is that they measure native ability and not knowledge derived from life experiences.

False

A home consisting of one parent and one child is not a family, because a family requires two parents.

False

Children of gay/lesbian parents do not fare as well as children of heterosexuals.

False

Youth depression cannot be effectively treated with medication, psychotherapy, or combined treatment.

False

... is a mineral found in drinking water that is good for children's dental health.

Fluoride

Middle childhood is a time that Erikson described as ...

Industry vs. Inferiority

Oblivobesity means ...

Lack of recognition from parents that children are overweight or obese

The most common vision problem in middle childhood is being ...

Nearsighted

The concept of a Language Acquisition Device was introduced by ...

Noam Chomsky

A ... is the smallest unit of sound that makes a meaningful difference in a language.

Phenome

an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something is known as a ...

Phobia

Mark, a fourth-grader, is loved by his classmates. He is picked first to play team sports at recess. His peers want to sit with him at lunch, and he gets along with the kids who sit in his group in class. Mark's peer status group could be categorized as ...

Popular

An evaluation of one's identity is known as ...

Self-esteem

... is the ability to order things in a logical pattern.

Seriation

Andrea can use a map to help her search for a hidden object. What cognitive ability has she acquired?

Spatial thinking

Early influences are important, but not determinative of gender identity, because the capabilities required for mature moral conduct, gender identity, and other outcomes continue to develop throughout childhood, adolescence, and even the adult years.

True

Howard Gardner has identified nine distinct kinds of intelligence.

True

Organized sports help children build social skills, improve athletically and learn a sense of competition.

True

Selective attention, the ability to inhibit irrelevant information improves during middle childhood, with there being a sharp improvement in selective attention from age six into adolescence.

True

Cohabitation means ...

Two people who are not married live together in an intimate relationship, particularly an emotionally and/or sexually intimate one, on a long-term or permanent basis

When children do not eat any animal products, we refer to them as ...

Vegans

Changes in myelination and synaptic pruning in the cortex are likely behind the increase in processing speed and ability to filter out irrelevant stimuli which aids in ...

Working memory