Human Growth and Development - Final Exam
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According to Piaget, what is a child's motivation for change? -
Correct Answers ✅an internal search for equilibrium
According to Schaie (1977, 2016), as young adults begin
working, cognitive development switches from - Correct
Answers ✅acquiring to applying knowledge
Which statement summarizes what Perry (1970) believes
about the cognitive level of a typical adolescent? - Correct
Answers ✅"Right is right, and wrong is wrong."
Highly gifted individuals - Correct Answers ✅typically have
exceptional talents in one or a small, limited set of domains
According to William Perry, compared to adolescent thinking,
adult thinking is - Correct Answers ✅reflective and
relativistic
Individuals with high intelligence or a superior talent are
called - Correct Answers ✅gifted
Ms. Whitaker incorporates peer tutoring in her classroom.
With whose theory of cognitive development does this
method best fit? - Correct Answers ✅Vygotsky
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What are the content areas of the current Stanford-Binet
intelligence test? - Correct Answers ✅fluid reasoning,
knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial reasoning,
and working memory
A cultural-familial intellectual disability normally falls in the IQ
range of - Correct Answers ✅55-70
Jamal is a 17-year-old high school student. Which of the
following is a correct statement about his cognitive
development? - Correct Answers ✅Jamal may still think in
concrete operational ways and may never become a formal
operational thinker
The Wechsler scales include 16 subscales that - Correct
Answers ✅employ a range of verbal and nonverbal
challenges
To be effective, IQ scores should be - Correct Answers
✅considered as just one of several aspects of evaluation in
conjunction with other information about the individual.
John Horn believes that __________ intelligence continues to
increase throughout a person's life span, whereas __________
intelligence begins to decline in middle adulthood. - Correct
Answers ✅crystallized; fluid
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Who would support the notion that intelligence involves using
the tools of the culture, with help from mentors? - Correct
Answers ✅Lev Vygotsky
Lexi calls every animal she sees a cat. This is an example of -
Correct Answers ✅assimilation
A genetic disorder or lower level of mental functioning caused
by brain damage is called a(n) __________ intellectual
disability. - Correct Answers ✅organic
IQ scores should be considered with caution because -
Correct Answers ✅scores can lead to false expectations
and generalizations
In the nature-nurture debate regarding intelligence, it is safe
to say that intelligence - Correct Answers ✅is influenced
by both heredity and environment
Neither Vygotsky's theory not Piaget's has much to say about
- Correct Answers ✅
Janie is exhausting her father with a barrage of "why"
questions. She is trying to figure out why things are the way
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they are. Janie is in Piaget's __________ substage. - Correct
Answers ✅intuitive thought
Who proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence? - Correct
Answers ✅Robert Sternberg
Animism and egocentrism represent limitations in the
preoperational child's thinking, because they indicate an
inability to - Correct Answers ✅distinguish among different
or real perspectives
Cross-cultural studies have indicated that __________ and
__________ intelligence can develop independently and may
even conflict with each other. - Correct Answers
✅practical; academic
According to Gardner, his concepts of __________ intelligence
are most closely related to the traditional IQ test. - Correct
Answers ✅spatial, mathematical, and verbal
An intellectual disability in which no evidence of brain
damage or genetic disorder can be found is called a(n)
__________ intellectual disability. - Correct Answers
✅cultural-familial
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According to Piaget, what is a child's motivation for change? -
Correct Answers ✅an internal search for equilibrium
According to Schaie (1977, 2016), as young adults begin
working, cognitive development switches from - Correct
Answers ✅acquiring to applying knowledge
Which statement summarizes what Perry (1970) believes
about the cognitive level of a typical adolescent? - Correct
Answers ✅"Right is right, and wrong is wrong."
Highly gifted individuals - Correct Answers ✅typically have
exceptional talents in one or a small, limited set of domains
According to William Perry, compared to adolescent thinking,
adult thinking is - Correct Answers ✅reflective and
relativistic
Individuals with high intelligence or a superior talent are
called - Correct Answers ✅gifted
Ms. Whitaker incorporates peer tutoring in her classroom.
With whose theory of cognitive development does this
method best fit? - Correct Answers ✅Vygotsky
,Human Growth and Development - Final Exam
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What are the content areas of the current Stanford-Binet
intelligence test? - Correct Answers ✅fluid reasoning,
knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial reasoning,
and working memory
A cultural-familial intellectual disability normally falls in the IQ
range of - Correct Answers ✅55-70
Jamal is a 17-year-old high school student. Which of the
following is a correct statement about his cognitive
development? - Correct Answers ✅Jamal may still think in
concrete operational ways and may never become a formal
operational thinker
The Wechsler scales include 16 subscales that - Correct
Answers ✅employ a range of verbal and nonverbal
challenges
To be effective, IQ scores should be - Correct Answers
✅considered as just one of several aspects of evaluation in
conjunction with other information about the individual.
John Horn believes that __________ intelligence continues to
increase throughout a person's life span, whereas __________
intelligence begins to decline in middle adulthood. - Correct
Answers ✅crystallized; fluid
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Who would support the notion that intelligence involves using
the tools of the culture, with help from mentors? - Correct
Answers ✅Lev Vygotsky
Lexi calls every animal she sees a cat. This is an example of -
Correct Answers ✅assimilation
A genetic disorder or lower level of mental functioning caused
by brain damage is called a(n) __________ intellectual
disability. - Correct Answers ✅organic
IQ scores should be considered with caution because -
Correct Answers ✅scores can lead to false expectations
and generalizations
In the nature-nurture debate regarding intelligence, it is safe
to say that intelligence - Correct Answers ✅is influenced
by both heredity and environment
Neither Vygotsky's theory not Piaget's has much to say about
- Correct Answers ✅
Janie is exhausting her father with a barrage of "why"
questions. She is trying to figure out why things are the way
, Human Growth and Development - Final Exam
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they are. Janie is in Piaget's __________ substage. - Correct
Answers ✅intuitive thought
Who proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence? - Correct
Answers ✅Robert Sternberg
Animism and egocentrism represent limitations in the
preoperational child's thinking, because they indicate an
inability to - Correct Answers ✅distinguish among different
or real perspectives
Cross-cultural studies have indicated that __________ and
__________ intelligence can develop independently and may
even conflict with each other. - Correct Answers
✅practical; academic
According to Gardner, his concepts of __________ intelligence
are most closely related to the traditional IQ test. - Correct
Answers ✅spatial, mathematical, and verbal
An intellectual disability in which no evidence of brain
damage or genetic disorder can be found is called a(n)
__________ intellectual disability. - Correct Answers
✅cultural-familial
