JERSEY COLLEGE MEDSURG 1
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BANK COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PRACTICE
SOLUTION VERIFIED
◉ gross motor skills. Answer: physical abilities involving large body
movements, such as walking and jumping
◉ fine motor skills. Answer: physical abilities involving small body
movements, especially of the hands and fingers, such as drawing and
picking up a coin
◉ Reaction Time. Answer: the amount of time taken to respond to a
specific stimulus
◉ ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Answer: a
psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or
more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and
impulsivity
◉ hyperactivity. Answer: a condition characterized by excessive
restlessness and movement
,◉ Stimulants(Ritalin). Answer: Drugs that increase the activity of
nervous system.
◉ dyslexia. Answer: impairment of the ability to read, word reversal,
mirror reading.
◉ learning disability. Answer: when a child with normal intelligence
has difficulty mastering at least one academic subject, language and
speech
◉ Mainstreaming. Answer: placing disabled children in classrooms
with nondisabled children
◉ concrete operational stage. Answer: in Piaget's theory, the stage of
cognitive development during which children gain the mental
operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
◉ Decentration. Answer: simultaneous focusing on more than one
aspect or dimension of a problem or situation
◉ Transitivity. Answer: the principle that if A>B and B>C, then A>C
◉ Seriation. Answer: placing objects in an order or series according
to a property or trait
, ◉ preconventional level. Answer: according to Kohlberg, a period
during which moral judgments are based largely on expectations of
rewards or punishments
◉ conventional level. Answer: according to Kohlberg, a period during
which moral judgments largely reflect social rules and conventions
◉ post conventional level. Answer: according to Kohlberg, a period
during which moral judgments are derived from moral principles, and
people look to themselves to set moral standards
◉ intelligence. Answer: Mental capacity; ability to learn, reason, or
comprehend and interpret information, facts, relationships, and
meanings; the capacity to solve problems, whether through the
application of previously acquired knowledge or through insight.
◉ achievement. Answer: something done successfully; something
gained by working or trying hard
◉ intelligence quotient (IQ). Answer: defined originally as the ratio of
mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 [thus, IQ
= (ma/ca) x 100]. On contemporary intelligence tests, the average
performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
◉ mental age. Answer: a measure of intelligence test performance
devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically
corresponds to a given level of performance
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BANK COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PRACTICE
SOLUTION VERIFIED
◉ gross motor skills. Answer: physical abilities involving large body
movements, such as walking and jumping
◉ fine motor skills. Answer: physical abilities involving small body
movements, especially of the hands and fingers, such as drawing and
picking up a coin
◉ Reaction Time. Answer: the amount of time taken to respond to a
specific stimulus
◉ ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Answer: a
psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or
more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and
impulsivity
◉ hyperactivity. Answer: a condition characterized by excessive
restlessness and movement
,◉ Stimulants(Ritalin). Answer: Drugs that increase the activity of
nervous system.
◉ dyslexia. Answer: impairment of the ability to read, word reversal,
mirror reading.
◉ learning disability. Answer: when a child with normal intelligence
has difficulty mastering at least one academic subject, language and
speech
◉ Mainstreaming. Answer: placing disabled children in classrooms
with nondisabled children
◉ concrete operational stage. Answer: in Piaget's theory, the stage of
cognitive development during which children gain the mental
operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
◉ Decentration. Answer: simultaneous focusing on more than one
aspect or dimension of a problem or situation
◉ Transitivity. Answer: the principle that if A>B and B>C, then A>C
◉ Seriation. Answer: placing objects in an order or series according
to a property or trait
, ◉ preconventional level. Answer: according to Kohlberg, a period
during which moral judgments are based largely on expectations of
rewards or punishments
◉ conventional level. Answer: according to Kohlberg, a period during
which moral judgments largely reflect social rules and conventions
◉ post conventional level. Answer: according to Kohlberg, a period
during which moral judgments are derived from moral principles, and
people look to themselves to set moral standards
◉ intelligence. Answer: Mental capacity; ability to learn, reason, or
comprehend and interpret information, facts, relationships, and
meanings; the capacity to solve problems, whether through the
application of previously acquired knowledge or through insight.
◉ achievement. Answer: something done successfully; something
gained by working or trying hard
◉ intelligence quotient (IQ). Answer: defined originally as the ratio of
mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 [thus, IQ
= (ma/ca) x 100]. On contemporary intelligence tests, the average
performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
◉ mental age. Answer: a measure of intelligence test performance
devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically
corresponds to a given level of performance
