Chapter 6 Quiz Human Growth and Development Exam

What score on a standardized IQ test along with problems adapting to environments typically defines an intellectual disability?

70

Jackson wanted to memorize a shopping list, so he imagined a story where each of the items was found on a path. In this story, he interacted with each item on the path. Jackson is using what kind of memory strategy in this example?

elaboration

Josie can identify all the words in a sentence but struggles to decipher its meaning. What does Josie have trouble with?

comprehension

In math, how do the best American students score in comparison to Asian students?

about average

Nina was adopted as a young child. Her IQ is likely to be most like which of the following?

both biological parents' averaged IQs

Which of Sternberg's Theories of Successful Intelligence are represented by a student who can analyze a problem and find different solutions?

analytic ability

Diagnosing problems with remembering and effectiveness of strategies for remembering are two features of which of the following?

metamemory

According to Piaget, school-age children are most likely in which period of cognitive development?

concrete operational

According to the text, what do effective teachers do?

use active teaching methods

Students who learn from their failed attempts at memorizing are using which of the following?

metacognitive knowledge

According to Carroll, what type of intelligence involves the understanding of printed language and vocabulary?

crystallized

Tyler is a seven-year-old boy who struggles with reading individual words. What should his parents be most concerned about?

developmental dyslexia

Creativity involves divergent thinking, whereas intelligence often involves what type of thinking?

convergent

A sixth grader must memorize the major battles of the Civil War. They decide to categorize the battles by geographic location. This is an example of which memory strategy?

organization

Deductive reasoning refers to which of the following?

the ability to make appropriate conclusions from facts

Boys tend to have an advantage in which of the following?

gross motor skills involving strength

If a writer thinks about what they want to write and the purpose of their writing, organizes it, and then starts to write, they are using what strategy?

knowledge-transforming

The formal operational stage is most marked by which of the following?

hypothetical thinking

Jonathan recites four numbers to Stephan and asks him to repeat the numbers back to him, but backward. What type of memory does Stephan use to retain the numbers and transform them prior to repeating them back to Jonathan?

working

What does being gifted as a child and being emotionally intelligent as a child both predict in later years?

relationship satisfaction