M9 HG&D

Seriation

Robin, an eight-year-old girl, is playing with crayons. She notices that the crayons are of different lengths as she has used certain colors more than the others. She then arranges them from left to right in increasing order of size. Which of the following processes does this scenario illustrate?

They are able to engage in decentration.

According to Jean Piaget, which of the following is true of concrete-operational children?

Auditory stimuli can be maintained longer in short-term memory than can visual stimuli.

Which of the following statements is true of short-term memory?

Sternberg's theory of intelligence

Which of the following theories proposes that intelligence has a triarchic structure composed of analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence?

They develop the ability to use connectives.

Which of the following is true of children in the middle years?

They believe in the concept of immanent justice.

According to Piaget's theory of moral development, which of the following is true of children at the stage of objective morality?

Autonomous morality

Drew and Becca are playing with blocks at school. In his excitement, Drew accidentally pushes Becca, causing her to knock off the top layer of her tower. Though Becca gets angry, she realizes that Drew did not do much damage, and that Drew did not mean to do damage. She considers the situation and decides that Drew's action was not wrong. According to Piaget's theory of moral development, which of the following stages of moral development does this scenario illustrate?

Jane repeats the names of countries on her way to school.

Which of the following scenarios illustrates the process of rehearsing?

have somewhat greater limb coordination and overall flexibility.

In the context of growth through middle childhood, girls tend to _________________.

Formulate problems.

The development of metacognition is shown by the ability to:

Both yield scores called intelligence quotients that reflect an individual's intelligence level.

Which of the following is a similarity between the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler scales for measuring intelligence?

the consequences of their behavior

According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, children at the preconventional level base their moral judgments on:

dividing one's weight by the square of their height in meters.

The term body mass indexrefers to a value that is calculated by ______________________________

Both require children to integrate auditory and visual information.

Which of the following is a similarity between the phonetic method and the word-recognition method of teaching reading?

It is characterized by flexibility, ingenuity, and originality.

Which of the following is true of creativity?

placing disabled children in classrooms with nondisabled children

Mainstreaming refers to the process of ____________.

Simultaneous focusing on more than one aspect or dimension of a problem

Decentration refers to the process of ____________________.

attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Aby is a six-year-old who faces difficulty with his studies. At school, he fails to focus on any task for a long period of time. He walks around the classroom, fights with his classmates, and rarely completes his classwork. In this scenario, Aby is most likely suffering from _____.

sounds

Research examining the skills of bilingual children found that they had better short-term memories for ________.

Conventional level

Betty, a ten-year-old child, gets low grades in a class test and is afraid that her parents will scold her. She plans to lie to them about the grades and make up for it in the next test. However, she feels that good girls should not lie and decides to tell the truth to her parents. According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, which of the following stages of development does Betty represent?