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Approximately _____ percent of today's children have had a dental checkup in the past year.

75

According to Jean Piaget, the stage of thinking that is characteristic of middle childhood is the _____ stage.

concrete operational

Because they are beginning to think logically, children in Piaget's _____ stage of cognitive development can understand prefixes, suffixes, and compound words, even if they have not heard them before.

concrete operational

Jean Piaget's term for the ability to reason logically about direct experiences is _____ thought.

concrete operational

If a child has a BMI above the 85th percentile of children the same age, then he or she is considered:

overweight

What percentage of 5- to 11-year-old children in the United States have asthma?

10

The logical principle that things can be organized into groups or categories according to some characteristic that they have in common is _____.

Classification

Erika is in elementary school. She is in the developmental period known as:

MIDDLE CHILDHOOD

_____ is the practical use of language, including the ability to adjust language communication according to audience and context.

Pragmatics

Decades of research throughout the world have found a strong correlation between academic achievement and:

SES

In childhood, being overweight positively correlates with all of the following EXCEPT:

STRONGER immune SYSTEM

Some Western legal systems denote either 7 or 8 as the age at which a child attains reason. Is such a designation defensible from a Piagetian standpoint?

Yes. Children do acquire some basic reasoning skills during the concrete operational stage.

Eight-year-old Jamal's BMI is in the 85th percentile for his age. Which is MOST likely to contribute to his weight?

hours of television watched per day

Children in Piaget's concrete operational stage of cognitive development:

can organize objects into groups or categories.

According to the textbook, _____ may be seen as the ultimate control process.

metacognition

The ability to evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and adjust one's performance on that task, is called:

metacognition

"Thinking about thinking" is an apt description of:

metacognition.

All of the following are advantages of playing games with other children EXCEPT:

reduced accident rates.

Which early mathematics ability is positively associated with later math achievement?

understanding fractions