Asthma is a disorder caused by ______ the airways.
What is inflammation of?
100
A person's mental age and chronological age are factors used to determine his or her:
What is intelligence quotient?
100
_____ is one's ability to evaluate a task to determine what to do and in what order and also to monitor one's progress while working on the task.
What is metacognition?
100
A child's failure to master a particular skill that most people acquire easily may be an indication that the child has a(n) ______ _____________.
What is a learning disability?
100
Active play in school hours has _____ in the past two decades.
What is declined?
200
Better ventilation in schools and homes, less pollution, fewer antibiotics, and better medical diagnosis would be considered:
What is primary prevention?
200
Aptitude tests are designed to measure one's:
What is potential for learning?
200
By 8 years of age, increasing brain _____ results in development of massive interconnections that are crucial for the complex tasks that children must master.
What is maturation?
200
The two crucial components of long-term memory are storage and ______.
What is retrieval (or recall)?
200
The chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways that makes breathing difficult is called _____.
What is asthma?
300
The belief that children's immune systems need to be exposed to microbes is called the:
What is hygiene hypothesis?
300
April is tested on her mastery of college chemistry. She is taking a(n):
What is achievement test?
300
Kirby is sorting through his mother's cup of change. As he makes piles of pennies, nickels, and dimes, he utilizes the cognitive skill called ______.
What is classification?
300
The majority of children in the United States go to _____ schools.
What is public?
300
Having a body mass index (BMI) above the 95th percentile for one's age is the definition of ______.
What is obesity?
400
When comparing the rate of growth for children from ages 6 to 11, one notices that children grow more _________ than they did in previous stages.
What is slowly?
400
These are the two leading developmentalists who believe that humans have multiple intelligences, not just one.
Who are Sternberg and Gardner?
400
The cognition of middle childhood described by Piaget as the ability to reason logically about tangible things is called _____ operational thought.
What is concrete?
400
The legal requirement that children with special needs be assigned to the best educational context in which they can be expected to learn is called the _____ __________ environment.
What is least restrictive?
400
Having a body mass index (BMI) above the 85th percentile for one's age is the definition of ______.
What is overweight?
500
What is a benefit of physical activity for kids?
What is better overall health?
500
The ______ ______ has revealed that the average IQ of entire nations has decreased substantially over the years.
What Flynn effect?
500
The practical use of language is called _____.
What is pragmatics?
500
__________ ___________ is the factor that is MOST likely to cause a child's knowledge base to increase.
What is personal motivation?
500
The health habits that children develop during the middle childhood years are __________ to their health in adolescence and adulthood.