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The ________ not only provide an overall IQ score but also yield several composite indexes that allow the examiner to quickly determine the areas in which a child is strong or weak.

A) Wechsler scales
B) Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scales
C) Stanford-Binet tests
D) Apgar Scales

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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If the word "win" is on a list of words a child is asked to remember, the child might think of the last time he won a pony race with a friend. This is an example of

A) rehearsal.
B) organization.
C) inclusion.
D) elaboration.

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Sadie has a learning disability and is being educated in the least restrictive environment possible. This means that Sadie

Aiden is 18 years old. He has always found it harder to cope with his studies than his siblings do. He is always the last to finish any assignment or task in class. In a recent IQ test, his IQ score was 60. Which of the following is true of Aiden?

Damon's teachers frequently complain that he disrupts his kindergarten class by fidgeting and moving about all the time. He does not pay any attention to what is being taught in class and behaves impulsively. Considering the presence of the tell-tale characteristics of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, Damon's pediatrician diagnosed him with ________ and put him on a combination of Ritalin and behavior therapy.

Fiona, a ten-year-old girl, is an outstanding flautist and has an IQ of 140. Fiona is

The concept that a child with a disability must be educated in a setting that is as similar as possible to settings of children who do not have disabilities is called ________.

In the context of language development, the process through which children make progress in understanding how to use language in culturally appropriate ways is called ________.

What causes autism spectrum disorders?

________ develops more rapidly during early childhood, and ________ develops more rapidly during middle and late childhood.

The ________-language approach stresses that reading instruction should parallel a child's natural language learning.

According to Howard Gardner's theories, who among the following would need to have good spatial abilities to be successful?

The incidence of cancer in children has ________ in recent years.

A learning disability

The worldwide increase in intelligence test scores that has occurred over a short period of time has been called the ________ effect.

At some point during the early elementary school years, children begin to use ________ more and, according to fuzzy trace theory, this contributes to the improved memory and reasoning of older children.

Define giftedness. Is giftedness a product of heredity or environment? Give one example.

Identify and describe the most common type of cancer in children.

Kimberly is 7 years old. She asks her mother to buy her clothes at the start of the new academic year. However, her mother tells her that she won't buy too many clothes now as Kimberly will grow them out soon. She expects Kimberly, on an average, to gain ________ pounds per year during middle and late childhood.

Which theory states that memory is best understood by considering two types of memory representation: verbatim memory trace and gist?