Definitions
The understanding that both physical actions and mental operations can be reversed.
What is Reversibility?
The classification of a child who's BMI-for-age is above the 95th percentile.
What is Obese?
_____ attention is the ability to focus cognitive activity on the important elements of a problem or situation.
What is Selective Attention?
True or false: Fast-mapping is the ability to categorically link new words to real-world referents.
What is True?
What percentage of special education students are in the communication disorder in speech or language category?
What is 22%?
The ability to recall information from long-term memory without using short-term memory capacity.
What is Automaticity?
True or false: In the United States over the past 50 years the BMI percentage has increased dramatically in children ages 6-11.
What is True?
The abbreviation TBI stands for...
What is traumatic brain injury?
The most frequent cause of school absence in middle adulthood is...
What is Asthma?
The one type of school intervention that shows promise is what the approach?
What is Reciprocal Teaching?
The ability to infer rules from and make predictions about the movement of objects in space.
What is Spatial Cognition?
A pattern in which children gain more weight in a year than is appropriate for their age and height is referred to as...
What is Excessive Eating?
Children between the ages of 7-11 can reason logically and classifiy objects.
What is Concrete Operations?
Research indicates that children who use_____ define learning goals and follow a set of orderly steps to reach them.
What is Analytical Style?
Name a disability most seen in middle childhood.
What is Learning Disability?
A mental disorder that causes children to have difficulty attending to and completing tasks.
What is Attention- Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
Between what ages do physical changes occur in Middle Childhood?
What is ages 6-11?
Two main memory strategies that are commonly used by children in the middle childhood stage.
What is organization & elaboration?
88% of families in America cite the reason for homeschooling their child is...
What is School Environment?
What percentage of children in the U.S. have ADHD?
What is 10%?
An approach to second-language education in which children receive instructions in two different languages.
What is Bilingual Education?
This develops during middle childhood and involves the use of small bodily movements that allow children to improve handwriting, dexterity, and play an instrument.
What is Fine Motor Skills?
The ability to arrange items in an increasing or decreasing order based on weight, volume and or size.
What is Seriation?
This theory claims, these 8 types of intelligence; Linguistic, Mathematical, Musical, Spatial, Bodily kinesthetic, Naturalist, Interpersonal, and Interpersonal.
What is Multiple Intelligences?
The three areas that are looked at when assessing students for intellectual disabilities.
What are academic, intellectual, and adaptive?