Question 1

Growth spurt is the period during which growth advances at a dramatically rapid rate compared with other periods.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true of the elaborative strategy?​

Accepted Answer

A)   It is a more effective method than rote rehearsal to remember information.
B)   It operates on a limited level and is ineffective for younger children.
C)   It is useful for retaining stimuli in sensory memory.
D)   It focuses on arriving at a single solution to a problem.E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

A child understands that if an elephant is bigger than a bear and a bear is bigger than a cat, then an elephant is bigger than a cat. This demonstrates the child's understanding of _________.

Accepted Answer

A)   conservation
B)   transitivity
C)   class inclusion
D)   decentrationE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 4

Which of the following statements accurately describes the impact of gender differences on physical growth during the middle childhood years?​

Accepted Answer

A)   Girls are heavier and taller than boys through the age of nine or ten.
B)   Boys surpass girls in height and weight until about 13 or 14.
C)   Beginning at about age 11, boys develop relatively more muscle, and girls develop relatively more fat.
D)   Boys experience a steady weight gain through middle adulthood, whereas girls experience an overall weight loss.E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 5

Which of the following is a difference between the judgements made at preconventional level and the judgements made at postconventional level of reasoning?​

Accepted Answer

A)   Unlike the judgements made at the preconventional level, judgements made at the postconventional level are based on the consequences of behavior.
B)   Unlike the judgements made at the preconventional level, judgements made at the postconventional level are found in adolescents and adults.
C)   Unlike the judgements made at the postconventional level, judgements made at the preconventional level is based on a person's own moral standards.
D)   Unlike the judgements made at the postconventional level, judgements made at the preconventional level are mostly found in children above 10 years old.E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 6

Intelligence quotient is the _____.

Accepted Answer

A)   intellectual level at which a child functions, based on the typical performance of a child of a certain age
B)   ratio obtained by dividing a child's mental age on an intelligence test by his or her chronological age
C)   factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an advantage for test takers from certain cultural backgrounds
D)   descriptive result of an intelligence test in which cultural biases have been removedE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 7

According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, children in the conventional level base their moral judgments on the consequences of behavior.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of the following statements is true of creative children?​

Accepted Answer

A)   They solve problems to which there are no preexisting solutions.
B)   They adhere to social norms and accept ideas at their face value.
C)   They employ convergent thinking rather than divergent thinking.
D)   They refuse to take chances and accept their limitations.E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 9

Which of the following is the brain chemical that promotes the brain's control over more primitive functions?

Accepted Answer

A)   Epinephrine
B)   Dopamine
C)   Oxytocin
D)   RhodopsinE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 10

_________ requires the performance of fine motor skills.

Accepted Answer

A)   Balancing on a bicycle
B)   Hitting a tennis ball
C)   Coordinating a knife and fork
D)   Pedaling a bicycleE) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 11

Which of the following is a factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an advantage for test takers from certain cultural backgrounds?​

Accepted Answer

A)   Cultural bias
B)   Heritability
C)   Cultural hypocrisy
D)   TransitivityE) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

Overweight children excel in sports and are considered attractive in adolescence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Children in the concrete operational period of development can focus on more than one dimension of a problem at a time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Which of the following statements best describes the word-recognition method?​

Accepted Answer

A)   It is a method for learning to read in which children come to recognize words through repeated exposure to them.
B)   It is a method by disabled students are placed in classrooms with nondisabled children in order to accommodate them into mainstream education.
C)   It is a method by which objects are placed in an order or series according to a property or trait.
D)   It is a method for learning to read in which children decode the sounds of words based on their knowledge of the sounds of letters and letter combinations.E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 15

Describe Piaget's concrete-operational stage.

Accepted Answer

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Question 16

Which of the following statements is true of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?​

Accepted Answer

A)   It is caused by the overexposure to food preservatives.
B)   It occurs by age seven and is many times more common in boys than girls.
C)   It is characterized by letter reversal, mirror reading, and reduced comprehension.
D)   It is most widely treated by using suppressants.E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 17

Sean's mental age is 15 and his chronological age is 10. Which of the following values will be his intelligence quotient(IQ) ?​

Accepted Answer

A)   140
B)   150
C)   155
D)   135E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 18

_________ is the ability to do things that are novel and useful.

Accepted Answer

A)   Adaptability
B)   Creativity
C)   Heritability
D)   TransitivityE) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 19

Which of the following is a useful strategy for promoting memory?​

Accepted Answer

A)   Seriation
B)   Mainstreaming
C)   Encoding
D)   DecentrationE) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 20

According to Piaget's theory of moral development, children in the stage of autonomous morality believe in the principle of immanent justice.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 9: Middle Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Which of the following statements is true of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?​

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Which of the following statements accurately describes the impact of gender differences on physical growth during the middle childhood years?​

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Sean's mental age is 15 and his chronological age is 10. Which of the following values will be his intelligence quotient(IQ) ?​

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Overweight children excel in sports and are considered attractive in adolescence.

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Which of the following is the brain chemical that promotes the brain's control over more primitive functions?

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Intelligence quotient is the _____.

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Which of the following is a factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an advantage for test takers from certain cultural backgrounds?​

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Which of the following statements is true of the elaborative strategy?​

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According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, children in the conventional level base their moral judgments on the consequences of behavior.

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Children in the concrete operational period of development can focus on more than one dimension of a problem at a time.

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