Developmental Test 2 with Verified Answers
During middle childhood, the brain continues to grow and develop. One change during this
development is the increased coordination between the left and right sides of the body.
Which of the following events most directly accounts for this increased coordination?
a. Increase in gray matter in the brain
b. Myelination of the corpus callosum
c. Decrease in white matter in the brain
d. The child's experience - Ans -B
chp 6
What cognitive ability do children develop in middle childhood that empowers or enables
them to answer conservation questions correctly (like those posed by Piaget) and to think
reversibly?
a. Ability to count
b. Ability of metacognition
c. Ability to think abstractly
d. Ability to decenter - Ans -D
chp 6
What type of memory has the same unchanging capacity at different ages of development?
a. Short-term memory
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b. Sensory memory
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,c. Working memory
d. Procedural memory - Ans -B chp 6
What allows us to hold information in working memory and use it for periods of time
longer than 15 to 30 seconds?
a. Rehearsal
b. Retrieval
c. Recognition
d. Metacognition - Ans -A chp 6
When a child has repeated experiences with one kind of event, such as going to a ball game
several times or going to the doctor several times, the child begins to form a schematic
representation of the features of the event — the order in which things occur, where and
when they occur. Such an episodic representation is called what?
a) Procedural information
b) A script
c) A sensory input
d) Nondeclarative information - Ans -A
chp 6
Among cognitive changes that benefit memory during a child's development, which one
plays the big part in making it easier for children to learn more depth in a domain
knowledge?
a. Increase in the child's processing speed
b. Increase in the child's logical thinking skills
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c. Increase in the child's knowledge base
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, d. Increase in the child's language skills - Ans -C
chp 6
Piaget's seriation task demonstrates which one of the cognitive changes that benefits
memory with age?
a. Processing speed
b. Knowledge base
c. Metacognitive skills
d. Logical thinking skills - Ans -D chp 6
Children's repeated interactions with others enhance their ability to decenter and to
interpret other's thoughts, feelings, and desires. This ability to consider another's
point of view is called what?
a. A Script
b. Rehearsal
c. Metacognition
d. Perspective Taking - Ans -D
chp 6
Dylan, a 9 year old, is manipulative in his interactions with his friends. He does not use
physical aggression, but he often tries threats and scare tactics to get what he wants.
Dylan's interpersonal orientation would be described as
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a. Mature for his age.
During middle childhood, the brain continues to grow and develop. One change during this
development is the increased coordination between the left and right sides of the body.
Which of the following events most directly accounts for this increased coordination?
a. Increase in gray matter in the brain
b. Myelination of the corpus callosum
c. Decrease in white matter in the brain
d. The child's experience - Ans -B
chp 6
What cognitive ability do children develop in middle childhood that empowers or enables
them to answer conservation questions correctly (like those posed by Piaget) and to think
reversibly?
a. Ability to count
b. Ability of metacognition
c. Ability to think abstractly
d. Ability to decenter - Ans -D
chp 6
What type of memory has the same unchanging capacity at different ages of development?
a. Short-term memory
1
b. Sensory memory
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,c. Working memory
d. Procedural memory - Ans -B chp 6
What allows us to hold information in working memory and use it for periods of time
longer than 15 to 30 seconds?
a. Rehearsal
b. Retrieval
c. Recognition
d. Metacognition - Ans -A chp 6
When a child has repeated experiences with one kind of event, such as going to a ball game
several times or going to the doctor several times, the child begins to form a schematic
representation of the features of the event — the order in which things occur, where and
when they occur. Such an episodic representation is called what?
a) Procedural information
b) A script
c) A sensory input
d) Nondeclarative information - Ans -A
chp 6
Among cognitive changes that benefit memory during a child's development, which one
plays the big part in making it easier for children to learn more depth in a domain
knowledge?
a. Increase in the child's processing speed
b. Increase in the child's logical thinking skills
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c. Increase in the child's knowledge base
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, d. Increase in the child's language skills - Ans -C
chp 6
Piaget's seriation task demonstrates which one of the cognitive changes that benefits
memory with age?
a. Processing speed
b. Knowledge base
c. Metacognitive skills
d. Logical thinking skills - Ans -D chp 6
Children's repeated interactions with others enhance their ability to decenter and to
interpret other's thoughts, feelings, and desires. This ability to consider another's
point of view is called what?
a. A Script
b. Rehearsal
c. Metacognition
d. Perspective Taking - Ans -D
chp 6
Dylan, a 9 year old, is manipulative in his interactions with his friends. He does not use
physical aggression, but he often tries threats and scare tactics to get what he wants.
Dylan's interpersonal orientation would be described as
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a. Mature for his age.
