Chapter 12 Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood Quiz

Which statement about inclusion is true?

Achievement gains depend on the severity of the disability and the support services available.

Rochelle is taking a test in which she is asked to come up with as many different ways as possible to make use of a drinking straw. This is most likely a test of ________.

divergent thinking

Children who are not capable of decentration have difficulty ________.

focusing on several aspects of a problem and relating them to one another

Which statement about attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is true?

Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) find it hard to ignore irrelevant information.

Which statement about working memory is true?

Children with limited working memories can benefit from direct training with working memory tasks.

Cross-cultural research shows that ________.

East Asian children, influenced by interdependent values, typically view striving to achieve as a moral obligation

Which statement about IQ is true?

It predicts school performance and educational attainment.

Which statement about delayed school entry and school readiness is true?

There are few long-term academic or social benefits for delaying school entry.

Which statement about teacher-student relationships is true?

Warm, low-conflict teacher-student relationships have an especially strong impact on the achievement of children at risk for learning disabilities.

A child in the concrete operational stage will have the most trouble understanding ________.

abstract ideas

Reading instruction based entirely on phonics training would likely ________.

cause many children to lose sight of the goal of understanding written material

Ethnic minority parents without extensive education often prefer a(n) ________ style of communication when completing tasks with children; this style ________ the style of communication used in typical classrooms and academic tests.

collaborative; contrasts with

Elaboration is a later-emerging memory strategy because it requires ________.

considerable effort and space in working memory

Piaget believed that the development of concrete operational thought reflects ________.

discontinuous restructuring of children's thinking

Compared to the narratives of school-age children, the narratives of preschool children are more likely to include ________.

direct expressions of meaning

Arthur Jensen promoted the idea that __________ is largely responsible for individual, ethnic, and SES variations in intelligence.

heredity

A topic-associating style of narration would be likely to ________.

include fictional elements and references to a character's emotion

Dynamic assessment involves ________.

introducing purposeful teaching into the testing situation

The largest number of U.S. students designated for inclusion in classroom settings have ________.

learning disabilities

Gifted children fare well in programs that ________.

provide special activities that promote problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity

Reciprocal teaching focuses on which four cognitive strategies?

questioning, summarizing, clarifying, and predicting

Children who become fluent in two languages ________

tend to have especially efficient executive function skills

Reversibility refers to the capacity to ________.

think through a series of steps and then mentally change direction, returning to the starting point

Research on metacognition shows that school-age children ________.

view the mind as an active, constructive agent that selects and transforms information

The __________ factor on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition, is assumed to be less culturally biased than other factors because it ________.

visual-spatial processing; requires little specific information