Chapter 9 - Practice Quiz
If current trends continue, estimates are that by 2050, over _____ American children will be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
84,000
Six-year-old Elijah sees that his father makes a small, thick pancake and a big, thin pancake using the same amount of pancake batter. Elijah thinks that the big pancake has more batter than the small pancake because of its appearance. In the context of Piagetian cognitive development, which of the following is most likely to be true about Elijah?
Elijah is in the preoperational stage of development.
Zahra is a critic of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. She is most likely to argue that
Gardner's multiple intelligences are classified without considering the overlaps between separate intelligences.
Nine-year-old Ahmed regularly plays a board game that includes linear sequences. He is good at computational and numerosity estimation and finds it easier to place 50 numbers evenly along a line from 0 to 100 than do his classmates. He is also better than his classmates at solving various types of conservation problems. In the context of Piagetian cognitive development, which of the following is most likely the reason for Ahmed's ease at estimating number lines?
He plays a board game that includes linear sequences.
According to Schnack et al. (2014), which of the following is true about the influence of brain development on IQ?
Intelligence is highest in those children whose prefrontal cortex thins most quickly.
Which of the following is true of Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?
It focuses on the processes involved in intelligent behavior.
Which of the following is true of working memory?
It involves the short-term storage of information that is being actively processed.
In the context of cognitive development, which of the following is true of the increasing capacity for selective attention in school-age children?
It is believed to be due to neurological maturation.
Identify a true statement about type 2 diabetes.
It is characterized by insulin resistance and used to be found primarily in overweight and older adults.
Which of the following is true of the second edition of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC-II)?
It is designed to evaluate cognitive abilities in children with diverse needs.
In the context of psychometrics, identify a true statement about the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV).
It provides separate subtest scores that pinpoint a child's strengths and help diagnose specific problems.
Which of the following is true about obesity in children?
Obesity often results from an inherited tendency aggravated by too little exercise and too much or the wrong kinds of food.
Seven-year-old Dora has higher-than-average intelligence and normal vision and hearing. She also has an IQ score of 100. However, she finds it difficult to process information that can be directly perceived by her senses, such as reading and writing, even though she pays attention to what is being taught at school. This affects her performance at school. In the context of educating children with special needs, which of the following is likely to be true about Dora?
She has learning disabilities (LDs).
Sophia and Jackson are enrolled in Steps Middle School, which has an academic focus, whereas Noah and Avery are enrolled in Pearl Middle School, which has a vocational focus. According to Becker, Ludtke, Trautwein, Koller, and Baumert (2012), in the context of the influence of schooling on IQ, which of the following is most likely true?
Sophia and Jackson are likely to show greater gains in intellectual performance than Noah and Avery.
Identify a true statement about type 1 diabetes.
Symptoms include increased thirst and urination, hunger, and blurred vision.
Which of the following is true about the components of intelligence according to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?
The componential element is the analytic aspect of intelligence.
Identify a characteristic of children in the concrete operations stage of Piagetian cognitive development.
They cannot transfer what they have learned about one type of conservation to another type.
Which of the following is true of chronic medical conditions?
They persist for at least 3 months.
Yosef agrees with Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. He is also likely to believe that
a person who is a good guitarist may not necessarily have a traditionally high IQ.
According to Heron (2019), which of the following is the leading cause of death among school-age U.S. children?
accidental injury
Shanaya, a teacher for second graders, asks her students to divide 99 by 11. She expects all her students to arrive at the answer "9." In the context of J. P. Guilford's classification of thinking, this scenario exemplifies
convergent thinking.
The process of phonetic analysis by which a printed word is converted to spoken form before retrieval from long-term memory is known as
decoding
Arthur repeatedly says the address of his new house so that he will not forget it before writing it down. In this scenario, Arthur uses a form of mnemonic device called
rehearsal
Eight-year-old Julia can arrange toys according to their size, from the biggest to the smallest. She knows that if toy A is bigger than toy B, and toy B is bigger than toy C, then toy A is bigger than toy C. In the context of Piagetian cognitive development, which of the following is exemplified in this scenario?
seriation and transitive inference
Eight-year-old Irene knows that it takes 20 minutes to get to her grandparents' house from her house. She also knows how to play a game that is based on a map. In the context of Piagetian cognitive development, which of the following advances in selected cognitive abilities during middle childhood is exemplified in this scenario?
spatial thinking
