LifeSpan Chapter 12 Quiz – Flashcards
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According to Piaget, the stage of thinking that is characteristic of middle childhood is:
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concrete operational
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When Piaget referred to concrete operations, he meant logic applied in situations that:
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deal with visible, tangible, real things
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A significant contribution of Piaget's cognition theory is that he realized that school-age children become:
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less egocentric more flexible in their logic capable of categorizing into several groups at once
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Piaget stressed the ______________, whereas Vygotsky stressed the _________________.
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child's own discovery of concepts; importance of instruction by others
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Vygotsky believed that children learn from their:
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peers culture teachers
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The information-processing perspective compares human thinking processes to:
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computers
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Which aspect of memory has a very large capacity by middle childhood?
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long-term memory
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The ability to evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and adjust one's performance on that task, is called:
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metacognition
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A child's ability to speak formally or informally depending on the audience and the context is called:
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pragmatics
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Decades of research throughout the world have found a strong correlation between academic achievement and:
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socioeconomic status
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The unrecognized rules and priorities that influence a child's learning in school are called the:
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hidden curriculum
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The 2001 No Child Left Behind federal law was enacted because:
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the American government wanted to promote high standards for student achievement
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The strategy in which school subjects are taught in both the learner's original language and the second (majority) language is called:
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bilingual education
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A finding of international assessments is:
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the issue of how best to teach children continues to be controversial in almost every nation
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According to the text, the issue with comparing and evaluating home schooling, charter schools, and voucher situations is that:
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it is difficult because there isn't agreement on what is the "best education" nor how to measure it
