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Lutz & Pryzltulski recommended all of the following safeguards to avoid childhood obesity, except: |
| | A) | encourage year round appropriate physical activity |
| | B) | watch fat content in foods, especially empty calory junk foods |
| | C) | if the child begins to gain excessive weight, structure a diet and exercise program to control weight |
| | D) | A and C |
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Biological changes accompany developmental changes during middle childhood. All of the following are evidenced dutring this stage of developmental period, except: |
| | A) | Head growth slows, and then increases again during puberty. |
| | B) | Arms and legs become longer, yet with little sign of muscle development |
| | C) | Loss of baby teeth, emergence of permanent teeth, and changing shape of lower jaw |
| | D) | B and C |
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Six black tokens and six orange tokens are lined up next to each other. A five year old, and an eight year old can state that there are an equal number of tokens. When the black tokens are spread out to form a longer row, the five year old states that there are more black tokens. How would Piaget explain why an eight year old states that there are still an equal number of tokens? |
| | A) | concrete operational thinking is more flexible |
| | B) | in concrete operations, children gradually employ logical thought process |
| | C) | the eight year old can concentrate more on one aspect of the situation |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Bernadette is 7 years old. She is cleaning up toys in her play room, placing objects into plastic boxes. She puts red, wooden beads, blue plastic beads, and white plastic beads into the same box. This behavior exhibits which concrete operational thinking? |
| | A) | conservation |
| | B) | seriation |
| | C) | numeration |
| | D) | classification |
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__________________ view of intelligence contained three elements; direction, ability to adapt, and _________________. |
| | A) | Piaget's; act cognitively |
| | B) | Wechsler's; think critically |
| | C) | Binet's; auto criticism |
| | D) | Terman's; progress through mental age scales |
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________________ considered language a pre eminent example of human intelligence. |
| | A) | Gardner |
| | B) | Wechsler |
| | C) | Binet |
| | D) | Terman |
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Brian is 8 years old. His 10 year old brother Paul has constructed an airplane with his lego set. While Paul is at the movies with his friends, Brian takes the legos apart, and then puts it back together again, as Paul had left it. Gardner would attribute Brian's success in this task as |
| | A) | linguistic intelligence |
| | B) | logical mathematical intelligence |
| | C) | spatial intelligence |
| | D) | bodily kinesthetic intelligence |
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Differences in test results among children may be attributed to |
| | A) | test taking ability |
| | B) | anxiety |
| | C) | socioculteral aspects |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Women's moral decisions are based on ethics of caring, rather than a morality of justice, according to |
| | A) | Kohlberg |
| | B) | Gilligan |
| | C) | Piaget |
| | D) | None of the above |
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At the end of the middle childhood years, most children are in the _________ reading category |
| | A) | emergent |
| | B) | developing |
| | C) | independent |
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