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This activity contains 22 questions.
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Which of the following statements is true regarding physical development in middle childhood?
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Sarah asked John to hand her a spoon from the drawer. "It's in the drawer on your left," she said. Sarah's directions to John indicate her ________.
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Which of the following statements is true regarding language development?
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Marcus was bitten by his neighbor's dog. From that experience, Marcus came to the conclusion that strange dogs can be dangerous so he should not try to pet them. Marcus' conclusions demonstrate his ________.
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Pigs are animals; hammers are tools. A child who understands this understands the concept known as ________.
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Some kinds of information become so ingrained in the long-term memory that recall is very quick -- without the need for short-term memory capacity. This is called ________.
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The focus of education in the 6 to 12 year age range is ________.
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Tests that are scored based on a comparison to the average test score of a larger sample are called ________ tests.
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Musical, naturalist, and intrapersonal are categories of intelligence suggested by ________.
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Which of the following is true regarding second- language learners?
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The tendency to focus on the details of a task is called ________.
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When members of a culture value group progress over individual progress, we refer to their culture as being ________.
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According to research studies, North Americans believe in ________ ability, while Asians tend to believe ________.
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Which of the following is the most common reason for a child to be receiving special education services?
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Two growth spurts that occur in the brain during middle childhood occur in the cerebral cortex.
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Obesity is the most serious long-term health risk in middle childhood.
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Decentration is thinking that cannot take multiple variables into account.
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The basis for cognitive development is thought to be the increases in processing efficiency that occur with age.
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Mathematical/spatial intelligence is one of three types of intelligence suggested by Sternberg.
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Every school has an ethos that effects its students.
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Micayla does not like to get stuck in the details. She prefers to focus on the "big picture." Micayla uses a relational style.
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Technically, dyslexia is a complete absence of the ability to read.
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Answer choices in this exercise appear in a different order each time the page is loaded.
Which of the following is true about child language development by the age of 6 quizlet?
Which of the following is TRUE about child language development by the age of 6? Children at this age can explain ideas with complex sentences.
Which of the following statements about the effects on boys of watching high amounts of violent TV at age 8 is true?
Which of the following statements about the effects on boys of watching high amounts of violent TV at age 8 is true? They are more likely to be aggressive in adulthood than their counterparts who watch either little or no violence. Which of the following best describes sensory changes during middle childhood?
What stages of Kohlberg's moral development theory do children in middle childhood usually occupy?
According to Kohlberg, children early in their middle childhood stage of development will typically display "Preconventional" moral reasoning. Children displaying preconventional moral reasoning have internalized basic culturally prescribed rules governing right and wrong behavior.
Why might teaching children languages in middle childhood be successful?
Teaching children languages in middle childhood involves a different process than children in early childhood. Why might teaching children languages in middle childhood be successful? School-aged children are also able to learn new rules of grammar with more flexibility.