____ equips children with the skills needed to practice self-monitoring or self-instruction techniques -
Answers Metacognition
Middle school children typically develop friendships with children who share similar interests and
____. - Answers Enjoy playing together
When children living in poverty compare themselves to their middle-school classmates, they become
very susceptible to developing ____, which can trigger a downward spiral. - Answers Low self-esteem
Research suggests that bullying often occurs in intraracial environments - Answers True
_____ parents are highly demanding and use a high level of control in handling their children. They
usually show little affection toward their children and have closed communication between one
another - Answers Authoritarian
Chronic stress has been found to significantly affect cognitive development by interrupting brain
functioning - Answers True
Addressing the psychological barriers to physical activity may be paramount in successful therapeutic
treatment of obesity in children and adolescents - Answers True
During the ___ stage of Kohlberg's theory of moral development, the social orientation or focus is on
law and order - Answers Conventional
Children as young as age 8 have reported taking part in unhealthy dieting and eating behaviors -
Answers True
Cognitive development is unlikely to be effected by a child's socioeconomic status - Answers False
____ in children is now the number one health concern among parents in the United States - Answers
Obesity
Between the ages of ____, the primary and secondary sex characteristics are forming - Answers 10
and 12
Which of the following has not been shown to be an effective counselor intervention to address
bullying at school? - Answers Assemblies about the prevalence of interracial bullying
According to Selman, during the ___ stage of social perspective taking, children display a collaborative
integration of relationship dynamics - Answers 4th
Many of the changes occurring during middle childhood develop within the ____, which is the brain
center responsible for attention, working memory, behavior monitoring, self-regulation, reasoning,
information processing, goal-setting, and inhibition - Answers Prefrontal Cortex
How well children succeed at learning the social rules and self-presentational strategies has a large
impact on the development of _____ - Answers Social self-concept
Children develop conceptual skills such as conservation, classification, and computational skills during
adolescence - Answers False
For middle school children, their parents opinions are influential but their peers opinions are more
important - Answers True
During middle childhood, children have an expanded working memory, which allows them to take in
and manage more information at one time - Answers True
Children who use ___ to achieve dominance are generally more liked by their peers - Answers
prosocial strategies
During the ___ stage of Piaget's theory of moral development, moral reasoning is governed by
external rules - Answers Heteronomous morality
Specialized anitbullying interventions in schools should focus primarily on fostering positive _____ -
Answers school climate
Which of the following counseling approaches can be used most effectively as a preventative and
remedial intervention for dealing with middle-school students who have repetitive behavioral issues
in the school setting? - Answers Choice therapy
The male's adolescent growth spurt does not typically occur until the age of ____ - Answers 14