Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
At approximately what age should a child be able to use each hand independently? - CORRECT
ANSWER- 8-9 years old
A task force has been formed to study the injury death rates among children between the ages of
5 and 14. Which of the following groups will the task force discover has the highest injury death
rates? - CORRECT ANSWER- American indian and Alaska natives
some symptoms that a boy/girl with vision impairment may exhibit while doing schoolwork
include all of the following except - CORRECT ANSWER- glancing away for long periods
of time, apparently "day dreaming"
The causes of learning disabilities, while not well understood, are generally attributed to -
CORRECT ANSWER- brain dysfunction due to a combination of genetic and environmental
factors
intentionally used tactics employed to improve cognitive processing are called - CORRECT
ANSWER- control strategies
If a reading educator is in favor of teaching reading by presenting the basic skills that underlie
reading, such as phonics, this teacher is a proponent of the ____ approach - CORRECT
ANSWER- code-based
Which psychologist promoted the theory that addresses middle childhood children's focus on
meeting the challenges presented by the world? - CORRECT ANSWER- Erik Erikson
Sima is a child of recent immigrants to the United States, Sima is likely to demonstrate all of the
following except - CORRECT ANSWER- a high level of popularity among peers