Developmental CH6

strength

Fill in the Blank: ​On gross motor skills that emphasize ________________, boys tend to have an advantage over girls.

intellectual disability

Fill in the Blank: ​What used to be referred to as “mental retardation” is now more properly called ________________, and is marked by a deficit in intelligence quotient and problems adapting to one’s environment.

comprehension

Fill in the Blank: ​As children gain more general knowledge of their worlds—physical, social, and psychological—it is reasonable to assume that their reading ________________ skills will improve.

​elaboration

​A memory strategy that involves embellishing information in order to make it easier to recall is called ____.​

25%

​Breakfast should account for approximately ______ of a child’s daily calorie intake.

counting

By kindergarten, children have mastered ____ and use this as the basis for learning how to add.

true

True/False: ​Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions from facts and is typical of formal-operational thought.

false

True/False: ​Exceptional talent leads to extraordinary achievement, regardless of the types of instruction they receive.

false

​True/False: Gardner believes that schools should focus on both linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences, and allow other forms of intelligence to be fostered in the home.

charles spearman

​More than 100 years ago, ____ developed a theory of intelligence that suggested that there was a singular factor, called ‘g’, that was responsible for performance on all mental tests.

false

True/False: ​Research has found that stereotype threat causes people from very different backgrounds to earn very similar scores on intelligence tests.

metacognition

A person's knowledge and awareness of cognitive processes like those involved in remembering, perceptions, attention, and thinking is called: