Exam 12: Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development

A public subsidy for tuition payment at a nonpublic school is referred to as a private school.

By the end of middle childhood, the capacity of long-term memory is _____.

Jill has just heard her teacher say something. The sounds produced by the teacher are first stored briefly in Jill's _____.

In _____ schooling, teachers instruct children in their native language as well as in English.

The cognition of middle childhood that was described by Piaget as the ability to reason logically about tangible things is called _____ operational thought.

Long-term memory is huge by the end of middle childhood.

A child's ability to speak formally or informally depending on the audience and the context is called _____.

Eduardo is in fourth grade. Part of the instruction in his classroom is conducted in English and part is conducted in Spanish. His classroom uses _____.

Children from low-SES families usually _____ compared to children from high-SES families.

The ability to evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and adjust one's performance on that task, is called _____.

A body of knowledge in a particular area that makes it easier to master new information in that area is referred to as knowledge foundation.

A finding of international assessments is that _____.

Approximately _____ percent of children in the United States are home-schooled.

Tony came to walk to school with José. When José saw Tony's notebook in his backpack, José rushed back into his house to retrieve his own notebook, which contained his homework. Seeing Tony's notebook triggered José to retrieve from his _____ the fact that he needed his notebook.

According to Piaget, which ability do children gain during middle childhood?

_____ is one's ability to evaluate a task to determine what to do and in what order and also to monitor one's progress while working on the task.

Control processes improve with _____.

The logical principle that allows objects to be grouped according to some characteristic that they share is called _____.

Seven-year-old Hannah can arrange 10 buttons in order from smallest to largest. Her understanding of _____ allows her to accomplish this.

Control processes include emotional regulation, selective attention, and _____.