Homework answers / question archive / Southern Connecticut State University CHE 121 Chapter 9 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood QUESTION 1) According to Gardner, Carolina, an aspiring gymnast, will rely most heavily on which type of intelligence while on the balance beam?   Musical Bodily-kinesthetic Interpersonal Naturalist   QUESTION 2 According to Gardner, Monette, who is a salesperson for a prominent retail store, will rely most heavily on which type of intelligence at her job?   Musical Bodily-kinesthetic Interpersonal Naturalist   According to Piaget, children enter which stage at about the age of 7?   Sensorimotor Preoperational Concrete operational Formal operational   QUESTION 4 According to Piaget, when judging the moral actions of a person, children younger than 7 years old tend to focus only on the         of the offense, while older children consider     

Southern Connecticut State University CHE 121 Chapter 9 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood QUESTION 1) According to Gardner, Carolina, an aspiring gymnast, will rely most heavily on which type of intelligence while on the balance beam?   Musical Bodily-kinesthetic Interpersonal Naturalist   QUESTION 2 According to Gardner, Monette, who is a salesperson for a prominent retail store, will rely most heavily on which type of intelligence at her job?   Musical Bodily-kinesthetic Interpersonal Naturalist   According to Piaget, children enter which stage at about the age of 7?   Sensorimotor Preoperational Concrete operational Formal operational   QUESTION 4 According to Piaget, when judging the moral actions of a person, children younger than 7 years old tend to focus only on the         of the offense, while older children consider     

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CHE 121

Chapter 9 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

QUESTION 1)

According to Gardner, Carolina, an aspiring gymnast, will rely most heavily on which type of intelligence while on the balance beam?

 

Musical

Bodily-kinesthetic Interpersonal Naturalist

 

QUESTION 2

According to Gardner, Monette, who is a salesperson for a prominent retail store, will rely most heavily on which type of intelligence at her job?

 

Musical

Bodily-kinesthetic Interpersonal Naturalist

 

According to Piaget, children enter which stage at about the age of 7?

 

Sensorimotor Preoperational Concrete operational Formal operational

 

QUESTION 4

According to Piaget, when judging the moral actions of a person, children younger than 7 years old tend to focus only on the         of the offense, while older children consider      .

 

degree; intent desire; outcome intent; severity punishment; reward

 

QUESTION 5

According to research presented in your text, the influence of Barbie dolls on girls’ own body images was most striking at ages

 

3-4.

5 ½ to 6 ½.

6 ½ to 7 ½.

8-9.

 

QUESTION 6

According to research, which type of second-language learning is most successful?

 

English-immersion approach Bilingual education

Two-way (dual-language) learning All of these

 

QUESTION 7

According to the text, rates of physical growth during middle childhood are

 

fastest for children from South America and Southeast Asia. Extremely variable across geographic regions and ethnic groups. not influenced by environmental factors.

quite similar in children throughout the world regardless of ethnicity or nutritional status.

 

According to the text, schools have adopted different approaches around second language learning. These include all of the following EXCEPT

 

English immersion. bilingual education. multilingual education. dual language learning.

 

QUESTION 9

According to your text, gender differences in school achievement are largest and most reliable between

 

writing and science. writing and reading. mathematics and science. art and music.

 

QUESTION 10

Howard Gardner believes people have                  relatively independent kinds of intelligence, and that traditional IQ tests measure   of them.

 

3; 2

15; 7

5; 1

8; 3

 

QUESTION 11

Children in Piaget’s concrete operational stage show increased skill in all of the following areas EXCEPT

 

space and causality. hypothetical thinking. inductive reasoning. categorization.

 

QUESTION 12

Children who have higher BMIs, hypertension, and glucose intolerance have an increased life expectancy.

 

a life expectancy of 2 to 5 years less than their peers. a life expectancy that is decreased by over 25%.

no greater risk factors than other children but should lose weight.

 

 

QUESTION 13

Compared with early childhood, during middle childhood, sleep needs

 

increase. decline.

stay the same. None of these

 

QUESTION 14

Generalizing from the text, which of the following children would have the greatest chance of being obese?

 

A girl from China

A Mexican-American boy A white female child

A white male child

 

QUESTION 15

Generalizing from the text, which of the following children would probably be the tallest during middle childhood?

 

A middle-class African-American child A middle-class white child

An Ethiopian child A Cambodian child

 

QUESTION 16

Howard Gardner recently added an eighth type of intelligence, , to his original list of seven.

 

musical naturalist interpersonal

bodily-kinesthetic

 

QUESTION 17

Piaget concluded that moral reasoning develops in three stages, which include all of the following EXCEPT

 

obedience to authority. mutual respect.

moral intent. equity.

 

 

QUESTION 18

Repetition of information to be held in memory is called

 

organization. elaboration. rehearsal. encoding.

 

QUESTION 19

Research with gifted children has shown that

 

gifted children have different kinds of minds than other children.

present methods of identifying gifted children for special programs have proven validity. other children would not benefit from the kinds of programs offered to gifted children. many children would benefit from some combination of acceleration and enrichment.

 

QUESTION 20

Rough-and-tumble play peaks in

 

early childhood. middle childhood. early adolescence. late adolescence.

 

QUESTION 21

Social promotion refers to the practice of

 

promoting students based on their communication skills. promoting students based on the number of friends they have.

promoting students based on their age, even if they don’t meet academic standards. promoting students based on the number of likes they receive when posting comments on Twitter.

 

 

 

QUESTION 22

What are some contributors to children being overweight?

 

Eating out more often with increased calorie consumption Increased time in front of the television and computer

Less activity and less engagement in sports and physical play All of these

 

QUESTION 23

What is the leading cause of death in middle childhood?

 

Injury by accident Cancer

HIV/AIDS

Upper respiratory problems

 

QUESTION 24

With regard to physical growth during middle childhood,

 

boys gain more weight each year than girls. girls gain more weight each year than boys.

both boys and girls gain about the same amount of weight each year. boys and girls gain about the same until the prepubescent growth spurt.

 

QUESTION 25

                defines successful intelligence as the skills and knowledge needed for success within a particular social and cultural context.

 

Howard Gardner Robert Sternberg Jean Piaget David Elkind