ch 11 min quizzes

According to Piaget, concrete operations are systematic mental procedures (add and subtract) that are ___

Reversible

According to Inhelder and Piaget, when children can solve class inclusion task, they understand ___

Part-whole relationships

One of the reasons Piaget created so many tasks like conservation, class inclusion, seriAction, and transitory is that he was testing whether the thinking of children___

Was similar across tasks at a particular stage of development

Piaget was correct that young children tend to rely on an egocentric frame of reference when navigating through environmental spaces, but research after Piaget has established that rather than moving gradually to an allocentric frame of reference by 10-12, children ___

Become more effective at integrating egocentric and allocentric navigational strategies

It is likely that the use of actual maps and the ability to navigate around one’s environment ___

Are reciprocally related during the period from 4-12 years of age

Gender differences and special ability ___

Are in the direction of males having better spatial ability but are small

Criticism of piagets concrete operations period is apparent in the longitudinal data collected by the Tomlinson-Keasey and colleagues, which is that___

Acquisition of concrete operational concepts I gradual rather than stage-like

Markman nd seibert showed that Piagets takes used language that based children towed comparing a superordinate class to a subclass, (animals -cows). What type of language was used in their experiment to reveal earlier understanding of class inclusion ?

They used a term to refer to the whole such as bunch or family

In terms of improvements in processing speed, Kaila research shows that children approach adult levels of speed on a wide range of mental functions by ages ___ years

13-15

According to baddeleys model of memory, visualizing the numbers 12 and 8 being added on a het of paper involves the working memory buffer called the ___, whereas maintaining the total in verbal memory as you move on to the next step in the problem involves the working memory buffer known as ___

Visualspacial sketchpad ; phonological loop

When working memory is measured using a reverse span task ________

Improvements with age occurs in parallel across different modalities (tactual, auditory, and visualspatial)

Child works better in a quiet corner vs with the pain classroom. The difference in behavior is most likely attributable to delayed development of ______

Inhibition or selective attention

When kids and adults take the Wisconsin card sorting shift from dimension to dimension (shape to color), depending on feedback. Difficulties in making the shifts

Often lead to what are called perseverative errors

A 5th grader studying for a history test puts all of the leaders from England during the American revolutionary war on one index card, and americas leaders on another. This memory strategy is known as____

Organization

Not a difference in memory functioning between experts and novices

Generally better functioning working memory

Does not increase suggestibility of kids 6 and under

A warm and supportive interviewer

The assumption that intelligence is not a single entity but is broken up into distinct aspects of intelligence, such as verbal and spatial ability, is known as the ___ model of intelligence

Hierarchical

In keeping with their original purpose, intelligence test scores in childhood show consistent, moderate correlations with current and future

School grades and achievement scores

Not a limitation of traditional intelligence tests

In accurate measurement of IQ or general cognitive ability

The heritability of intelligence ____

Increases with age to about 75-80% in adulthood

The study of sameroff and co. 1993 provided evidence that environmental risk factors tend to. ____

Operate in a cumulative fashion in IQ scores

Intellectual disability is defined as an IQ score of ____ combined with deficits in ____

70 or less; adaptive behavior

Children with intellectual disability are required by the US dept of education

To be placed in the least restrictive educational environment

Not an aspect of gardeners multiple intelligences framework

Working memory ability

Not an aspect of sternbergs triarchic theory of successful intelligence

Fluid intelligence

The ability to reflect on and self correct semantic or grammatical errors is an ability that is attributed in part to increases in

Metalinguistic awareness

A well-studied set of language interventions for children with language difficulties, including children with developmental language disorder, in the United Kingdom targeted all of the following language skills except

Phonological working memory

(Narrative skill, vocabulary, active listening)

After a few experiences in which they correctly figure out the pronunciation of a printed word, children often can recognize it immediately the next time they encounter it. This process is called

The self teaching mechanism

According to Linnea ehri, learning to read words takes place in several phases, but not ___

The orthographic phase

(Consolidated alphabetic, partial phonetic, full alphabetic)

One of the most important predictors and components of mathematical achievement has been found by Siegler and colleagues to be.

skill in placing numbers, including fractions, on a mental number line

All of the following are part of a general model for solving word problems that can help improve mathematics outcomes except

Use an abacus

(Draw a picture of the problem, look back, flow chart)

According to a study by Kuhn and Pease (2008), children can make quite a lot of progress in learning to coordinate theory with evidence in the fourth through seventh grades if they

are given systematic and motivating instruction in scientific reasoning from at least the fourth grade onward

The study teaching children the basics of a particle model of matter is an example of

Teaching big ideas in science

All of the following are categories of specific learning disorders under the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) guidelines except impairment in

Working memory

(Reading, written expression, mathematics)

The underlying cognitive difficulty in dyslexia involves all of the following except

Vocabulary knowledge

(Phonological awareness, phonological working memory, phonological retrieval from memory)

Evidence for differences in brain development as an important factor in dyslexia ____

Is supported by findings that the left hemisphere reading network is already disrupted in children from family risk studies prior to the onset of reading instruction

It may take several years for children who did not learn English as a native language in infancy or early childhood to master the use of English in school. Research studies reveal that

bilingual programs have a small to moderate advantage over ESL programs