Exam 12: Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development

A school funded by tuition charges, endowments, and often religious or other nonprofit sponsors is a voucher school.

The main test used to assess reading internationally is the _____.

According to the text, the issue with comparing and evaluating home schooling, charter schools, and voucher situations is that _____.

Metacognition is thinking about thinking.

Define classification and seriation and provide an example of each.

The part of the memory-processing system in which current, conscious mental activity occurs is known as long-term memory.

Approximately 4 percent of children in the United States are _____ by parents who avoid public and private schools.

Which of the following statements is true?

A strategy in which school subjects are taught in both the learner's original language and the second (majority) language is _____.

Explain what Piaget meant by concrete operational thought.

Dr. Holiday is doing a study to determine how 9-year-olds think. Based on theory, he believes that 9-year-olds should be able to reason logically about concrete situations-situations that are real, tangible, and visible. Dr. Holiday's belief is based on _____.

The unspoken and often unrecognized lessons that children learn in school, which are the unofficial, unstated, or implicit rules and priorities that influence the academic curriculum and every other aspect of learning in school, are called the _____.

Some children are classified as _____, based on their proficiency in English.

According to Piaget, a child between the ages of 6 and 11 can apply logical principles to concrete situations (real, tangible, visible).

According to Piaget, a child between the ages of 6 and 11 can apply logical principles to _____.

The information-processing theory was inspired by the knowledge of how _____ function.

Mechanisms that combine memory, processing speed, and knowledge to regulate the analysis and flow of information within the information-processing system are referred to as _____.

The information-processing perspective compares human thinking processes to _____.

According to Vygotsky, a teacher can be an instructor to a 6-year-old child.

When Kitana wants her teacher to repeat a question, she asks, "Would you please repeat the question?" but when she needs a classmate to repeat himself, she says, "Huh?" This example shows that Kitana understands _____.