Question 1

Who has better gross motor skills? Fine motor skills?

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Gross=Boys.
Fine=Girls.

Question 2

What is the corpus callosum?

Accepted Answer

Cords that connect two hemispheres for greater coordination.

Question 3

For middle childhood, 6- to 12-year-olds, growth is...

Accepted Answer

Slow consistent.

Question 4

True or false: American kids are not getting enough exercise.

Accepted Answer

True.

Question 5

What are impacts on becoming overweight?

Accepted Answer

1.) Heredity and environment.
2.) Genetic testing.
3.) Poor diet.
4.) Little physical activity. 
5.) No parental monitoring, screen time.

Question 6

What is pre-operation?

Accepted Answer

Ability to manipulate thought.

Question 7

What is Piaget's third stage?

Accepted Answer

Concrete Operational Stage.
Age 7-11. There is logical stability to the world. Elements can be changed and still retain original characteristics.

Question 8

What are the four hallmarks of the Concrete Operational Stage?

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1. Conservation: # of thing= the same even if arrangement or appearance is changed.
2. Classification: Fit one class into another. 
3. Identity: Nothing added/removed=the same.
4.) Seriation: Making an orderly arrangement from small to large.

Question 9

What is seriation?

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Making an orderly arrangement from small to large, like A>B>C.

Question 10

What are some critiques of Piaget's concrete operations?

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-Aspects of stage do not always emerge at the same time as he believed.
-Education and culture can exert stronger influences than he thought.

Question 11

What are Piaget's contributions to education?

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1.) Take constructivist approach: Be active and create knowledge.
2.) Facilitate rather than direct.
3.) Encouraged us to have ongoing tests and consider child's knowledge.

Question 12

Define laterization.

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Development of the corpus collosum.

Question 13

Why are children in the middle childhood phase so flexible?

Accepted Answer

Ligaments are not yet fully attached to the bone.

Question 14

What is scheme/schema?

Accepted Answer

-Piaget's representation of thought or action.
-Domain organized knowledge structures in long term memory that contain elements of related information.

Question 15

What can prevent the move of information to the prefrontal cortex?

Accepted Answer

Amygdala.

Question 16

True or false: RAS is always paying attention, specifically to what you want to pay attention to.

Accepted Answer

False.
RAS is always paying attention, however, it may not be what you want to focus on.

Question 17

Define info processing.

Accepted Answer

Improvement in memory reflect increases in background knowledge and strategies.

Question 18

4 groups of middle school students were tested, who did the best? Second best?
a.) Good readers/high baseball knowledge.
b.) Good reader/little baseball knowledge.
c.) Poor reader/high baseball knowledge.
d.) Poor reader/little baseball knowledge.

Accepted Answer

a.) Good readers/high baseball knowledge. Was the best.
c.) Poor reader/high baseball knowledge. Was the second best.

Question 19

What is perception?

Accepted Answer

Assigning meaning to sensory stimuli, interpretation.

Question 20

Give an example of the role of context?

Accepted Answer

l3 Can look like a B (AB) or 13 (12. 13, 14).

Question 21

What is attention?

Accepted Answer

Focus on stimulus, attention is selective. 
-Influence by what we already know.

Question 22

We can only pay attention to ____ thing(s) at a time.

Accepted Answer

One.

Question 23

What is interference?

Accepted Answer

Forgetting.

Question 24

What is chunking?

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Chunk information, such as numbers together, to remember. For example, (937) is one piece of information, not 3.

Question 25

What is an issue with long term memory?

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Although there is not a limited amount, the problem is receiving it.

Question 26

What are the three types of knowledge?

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1.) Declarative: Know that. Ex- I know that today is Wednesday.
2.) Procedural: Know how. Ex- I know how to drive.
3.) Conditional: Know when and why. Ex- I know when to take antibiotics.

Question 27

What is the difference between explicit and implicit memory?

Accepted Answer

Explicit: Conscious of remembering.
Implicit: Don't realize you're retrieving information.

Question 28

How do you help students with elaboration?

Accepted Answer

1.) Prior knowledge.
2.) Activate their prior knowledge.
3.) Organize info.
4.) Proceduralize and condition.
5.) Code.

Question 29

What are two ways of retrieving stuff in your memory?

Accepted Answer

1.) Activating memory: If you keep writing, you will eventually get the answer. Call up personal experiences.
2.) Reconstruction: Don't have to remember the answer, you know enough to reconstruct a good answer.

Question 30

What are the types of cognitive load?

Accepted Answer

1.) Intrinsic: Amount of cognitive processing something takes. Can only process 2 to 4 pieces of info at a time.
2.) Extraneous: How task is presented not critical to task (noise) irrelevant info. Logical or all over?
3.) Germane: Background knowledge.

Question 31

What is a standardized test?

Accepted Answer

Same directions are used for administering them and standard procedures used for scoring and interpreting them.

Question 32

What are the types of standardized tests?

Accepted Answer

1.) Norm Referenced: Raw score compared to everyone else's. Ex- ACT, SAT.
2.) Criterion-Refrenced: Test scores aren't compared, but to standard performance. Ex- driver's test.

Question 33

What is standard deviation?

Accepted Answer

Spread of scores around the mean. There is an equation to solve for this.

Question	Answer
Who has better gross motor skills? Fine motor skills?	Gross=Boys. Fine=Girls.
What is the corpus callosum?	Cords that connect two hemispheres for greater coordination.
For middle childhood, 6- to 12-year-olds, growth is...	Slow consistent.
True or false: American kids are not getting enough exercise.	True.
What are impacts on becoming overweight?	1.) Heredity and environment. 2.) Genetic testing. 3.) Poor diet. 4.) Little physical activity. 5.) No parental monitoring, screen time.
What is pre-operation?	Ability to manipulate thought.
What is Piaget's third stage?	Concrete Operational Stage. Age 7-11. There is logical stability to the world. Elements can be changed and still retain original characteristics.
What are the four hallmarks of the Concrete Operational Stage?	1. Conservation: # of thing= the same even if arrangement or appearance is changed. 2. Classification: Fit one class into another. 3. Identity: Nothing added/removed=the same. 4.) Seriation: Making an orderly arrangement from small to large.
What is seriation?	Making an orderly arrangement from small to large, like A>B>C.
What are some critiques of Piaget's concrete operations?	-Aspects of stage do not always emerge at the same time as he believed. -Education and culture can exert stronger influences than he thought.
What are Piaget's contributions to education?	1.) Take constructivist approach: Be active and create knowledge. 2.) Facilitate rather than direct. 3.) Encouraged us to have ongoing tests and consider child's knowledge.
Define laterization.	Development of the corpus collosum.
Why are children in the middle childhood phase so flexible?	Ligaments are not yet fully attached to the bone.
What is scheme/schema?	-Piaget's representation of thought or action. -Domain organized knowledge structures in long term memory that contain elements of related information.
What can prevent the move of information to the prefrontal cortex?	Amygdala.
True or false: RAS is always paying attention, specifically to what you want to pay attention to.	False. RAS is always paying attention, however, it may not be what you want to focus on.
Define info processing.	Improvement in memory reflect increases in background knowledge and strategies.
4 groups of middle school students were tested, who did the best? Second best? a.) Good readers/high baseball knowledge. b.) Good reader/little baseball knowledge. c.) Poor reader/high baseball knowledge. d.) Poor reader/little baseball knowledge.	a.) Good readers/high baseball knowledge. Was the best. c.) Poor reader/high baseball knowledge. Was the second best.
What is perception?	Assigning meaning to sensory stimuli, interpretation.
Give an example of the role of context?	l3 Can look like a B (AB) or 13 (12. 13, 14).
What is attention?	Focus on stimulus, attention is selective. -Influence by what we already know.
We can only pay attention to ____ thing(s) at a time.	One.
What is interference?	Forgetting.
What is chunking?	Chunk information, such as numbers together, to remember. For example, (937) is one piece of information, not 3.
What is an issue with long term memory?	Although there is not a limited amount, the problem is receiving it.
What are the three types of knowledge?	1.) Declarative: Know that. Ex- I know that today is Wednesday. 2.) Procedural: Know how. Ex- I know how to drive. 3.) Conditional: Know when and why. Ex- I know when to take antibiotics.
What is the difference between explicit and implicit memory?	Explicit: Conscious of remembering. Implicit: Don't realize you're retrieving information.
How do you help students with elaboration?	1.) Prior knowledge. 2.) Activate their prior knowledge. 3.) Organize info. 4.) Proceduralize and condition. 5.) Code.
What are two ways of retrieving stuff in your memory?	1.) Activating memory: If you keep writing, you will eventually get the answer. Call up personal experiences. 2.) Reconstruction: Don't have to remember the answer, you know enough to reconstruct a good answer.
What are the types of cognitive load?	1.) Intrinsic: Amount of cognitive processing something takes. Can only process 2 to 4 pieces of info at a time. 2.) Extraneous: How task is presented not critical to task (noise) irrelevant info. Logical or all over? 3.) Germane: Background knowledge.
What is a standardized test?	Same directions are used for administering them and standard procedures used for scoring and interpreting them.
What are the types of standardized tests?	1.) Norm Referenced: Raw score compared to everyone else's. Ex- ACT, SAT. 2.) Criterion-Refrenced: Test scores aren't compared, but to standard performance. Ex- driver's test.
What is standard deviation?	Spread of scores around the mean. There is an equation to solve for this.

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