FINAL- Week 4 Part 3

Question 1

Time needed to process info on a wide variety of cognitive declines rapidly between what ages?

Answer 1

Ages 6-12

Question 2

True or false:

Children handle increasingly difficult tasks that require the integration of working memory, inhibition, planning, flexible use of strategies, self monitoring and self correction of behavior

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True or false:

Children b/n ages 6 and 10 are better able to filter irrelevant stimuli and attend to central elements

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or false:

Memory strategies does not improve as attention improves

Answer 4

False

MEMORY AND ATTENTION IMPROVES

Question 5

True or false:

School aged children demonstrate improved ability to reflect in their own mental life and make mental inferences

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What does the process of cognitive self- regulation involve?

Answer 6

• continuously monitoring progress toward a goal
• checking outcomes
• redirection unsuccessful efforts

Question 7

How can parents and teachers foster self regulation?

Answer 7

• Pointing out important features of a task

- Suggesting strategies and explaining their effectiveness

Question 8

What is the whole language approach to learn how to read?

Answer 8

Children are exposed to text in complete form from the beginning

Promotes appreciation of communicative functions of written language

Question 9

What is the phonics approach to learn how to read?

Answer 9

Children are first coached in rules for translating written symbols into sounds

Complex reading material is introduced only after mastering these skills

Question 10

What do virtually all intelligence tests represent?

Answer 10

General intelligence or reasoning ability, along with an array of separate measuring specific mental abilities

Question 11

How can IQ tests be administered?

Answer 11

In groups or individually

Question 12

What does the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale (5th edition) measure?

Answer 12

General knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, working memory and basic info processing

Question 13

What does the wechsler intelligence scale for children-IV measure?

Answer 13

Verbal reasoning, perceptual reasoning, working memory and processing speed

Question 14

True or false:

Individuals who is nervous systems function more efficiently, permitting them to take in info and manipulate it quickly, appear to have an edge in intellectual skills

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What are the 3 broad interacting intelligence?

Answer 15

1) analytical intelligence
2) creative intelligence
3) practical intelligence

Question 16

How does Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences defines intelligence?

Answer 16

Distinct set of processing operations that permit Individuals to engage in a wide range of culturally valued activities

Question 17

What affects IQ?

Answer 17

Genetics

Environment

SES

Culture

Question 18

How many words a day do children in middle childhood learn?

Answer 18

20

Question 19

How old are children when they add orienting info (time, place, participants) and connectives (next, then, so, finally) that lend to coherence in their story?

Answer 19

6 and 7 years old

Question 20

Traditional or constructivist classroom:

Teacher is sole authority for knowledge, rules and decision making

Student are passive- they listen and complete tasks

Progress is evaluated by how well they keep pace with a uniform sty is standards in their grade

Answer 20

Traditional classroom

Question 21

Traditional or constructivist classroom:m

Teacher encourages student to co struts their own knowledge

Children are active agents that reflect on and coordinate their own thoughts rather than absorbing those of others

Answer 21

Constructivist classroom

Question 22

What are inclusive classrooms?

Answer 22

Students with learning disabilities learn alongside typical student win the regular educational setting for all or part of the day

Question 23

What IQ scores are considered gifted?

Answer 23

Above 130