CH 11: Cog Dev Middle Childhood
CH 12: School as a Context for Development
CH 13: Social-Emotional Dev Middle Childhood
CH 14: Physical Cog Dev in Adolescence
Bonus
100

Jamie collects coins and has been able to organize them by country and metal. What aspect of concrete operations is Jamie exhibiting? 

A) conservation

B) classification

C) planning

D) metacognition

B) classification

100

Which of the following describes the effect of schooling on memory? 

A) Schooling has no effect on memory.

B) Schooling increases children's overall memory capacity.

C) Schooling appears to teach children strategies for remembering.

D) Schooling has no effect on the ability to reflect on one's own memory.

C) Schooling appears to teach children strategies for remembering.

100

The key to developmental changes in friendship during middle childhood is:

A) maturation.

B) game playing.

C) moral reasoning.

D) the ability to take another's perspective.

D) the ability to take another's perspective.

100

While the results of studies are mixed, the overall effect of early maturation for girls appears to be:

A) minimal.

B) short-lived.

C) more negative than positive.

D) more positive than negative.

C) more negative than positive.

100

Steal!- Points earned come from a different team

What is metacognition?

 A) knowledge about the process of memory.

B) the ability to think about one's own thoughts.

C) a hypothesis that explains cognitive development during middle childhood.

 D) the combination of the following cognitive skills: attention, memory, and planning.

B) the ability to think about one's own thoughts.

200

Today's intelligence tests assume intelligence involves all of the following EXCEPT

A) processing speed

B) working memory

C) creativity

D) visual spatial reasoning

C) creativity

200

Top-down mathematics instruction begins with: 

A) drill and practice on basic procedures.

B) teaching strategies such as inversion.

C) reciprocal teaching.

D) problems that relate to children's real-world experiences.

D) problems that relate to children's real-world experiences.

200

Bullies tend to:

A) have poor social-information processing skills.

B) pick on a small percentage of school children.

C) use their well-developed social-information processing skills in an antisocial way.

D) not be popular.

C) use their well-developed social-information processing skills in an antisocial way.

200

Another name for formal operations is ____________ because at this stage children can apply operations to operations.

A) second-order operations

B) concrete operations

C) double operations

D) abstract operations

A) second-order operations

200

Double points!

Anatomical and physiological signs that outwardly differentiate males and females are:

 A) gonadotrophic hormones.

 B) primary sexual characteristics.

 C) ovulation and spermatogenesis.

D) secondary sexual characteristics.

D) secondary sexual characteristics.

300

All of the following are types of intelligences that are part of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences EXCEPT:

A) linguistic.

B) bodily-kinesthetic.

C) personal.

D) romantic.

D) romantic.

300

The effects of school on children's cognitive abilities can be best studied:

A) in cultures where schooling is available to only parts of the population.

 B) by removing children from school and comparing them with children who stay in school.

 C) by comparing traditional instructional strategies with strategies based on Vygotsky's theory.

 D) by comparing adolescents who have remained in school with peers who have dropped out.

A) in cultures where schooling is available to only parts of the population.

300

Beth is in middle childhood and thinks that the way her mother dresses is embarrassing. She is experiencing a process known as:

A) social reorientation.

B) coregulation.

C) de-idealization.

D) parental ethnotheory.

C) de-idealization.

300

A pattern in which the average age of puberty in developed countries declines across decades is referred to as:

A) secular trend.

B) precocious puberty.

C) late maturation.

D) early maturation.

A) secular trend.

300

Bonus! 2-choice elimination for a future question

Reciprocal teaching methods for increasing comprehension skills fit BEST with which theorist's views on development?

 A) Skinner's operant conditioning

 B) Freud's psychosocial approach

 C) Piaget's constructivist approach

D) Vygotsky's zone of proximal development

D) Vygotsky's zone of proximal development

400

Concrete operational thinking allows children to mentally:

A) combine, separate, order, and transform objects and actions.

B) form conceptual categories.

C) represent events from the past.

D) direct action toward abstract concepts.

A) combine, separate, order, and transform objects and actions.

400

Ms. Gui is an elementary school teacher. When she asks a student to give an answer that she already knows, she is using:

A) drill and practice.

B) practical knowledge.

C) instructional discourse.

D) metacognitive discourse.

C) instructional discourse.

400

Sarah is concerned with social standards and rules when she thinks about moral dilemmas. Kohlberg would say that she is at the ____________ level of moral development.

A) preconventional

B) conventional

C) postconventional

D) unconventional

B) conventional

400

Piaget felt that formal operational thinking differed from concrete operational thinking because it allows the individual to finally:

A) mentally combine, separate, and order objects and actions.

B) use logic in his reasoning.

C) realize that certain properties of an object will remain the same even if other superficial ones are altered.

D) systematically solve problems by considering all possible combinations of variables.

D) systematically solve problems by considering all possible combinations of variables.

400

Steal!- Points earned come from a different team

Children understand that social rules enable cooperation with others through all of the following, EXCEPT:

 A) negotiating plans.

 B) settling disagreements.

 C) keeping and breaking promises.

D) making up arbitrary rules.

D) making up arbitrary rules.

500

Identity refers to understanding that:

A) properties of an object change when the object looks different.

B) one mental operation can be reversed by the effects of another.

C) changes in one aspect of a problem are compensated for by changes in another.

D) changes limited to outside appearance do not change the amounts involved.

D) changes limited to outside appearance do not change the amounts involved.

500

When Mr. Johnson and a small group of students read silently through a portion of text and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning, what has taken place?

A) reciprocal teaching

B) integrated teaching

C) collaborative teaching

D) individualized teaching

A) reciprocal teaching

500

According to Erikson, the main challenge of middle childhood is that of industry versus inferiority, meaning that a child establishes a sense of:

A) self.

B) identity.

C) intimacy.

D) competence.

D) competence.

500

Scholars have speculated that in early adolescence there is a gap between intense emotions triggered by pubertal hormones and the brains' ability to regulate them. The adolescent is especially vulnerable to risk-taking, recklessness, and emotional problems until:

A) the maturation of synapses in the brain is complete.

B) the maturation of the frontal lobes is complete.

C) the maturation of the hypothalamus is complete.

D) the set-point is hit on the hormonal feedback loop.

B) the maturation of the frontal lobes is complete.

500

Bonus!

Effective culturally-adaptive instruction for Odawa Indian children included:

 A) much specific praise for individual work such as following up a correct answer by saying, "good."

 B) avoiding the recitation-script and known-answer questions.

C) addressing the children as a group and reprimanding students in private.

D) assisting students to complete work individually.

C) addressing the children as a group and reprimanding students in private.

+300 points