ECE214 Midterm Review

Many basic mathematical concepts such as multiplication and addition require concrete operational thinking.

In late middle childhood, fairness is a big concern in friendships.

Concrete operations are called “concrete” because:

Most grammatical knowledge is developed in the school-age period

Bullying happens because:

The most common cause of stress in childhood is school grades.

When a child in your class is learning English as a second language and is behind their peers in language, you should:

Piaget used the term “preoperational” to describe preschool children because they do not yet have the ability to:

Many children will say that they like the popular children and usually no one says they dislike them.

In the school-age, children who are low in negative reactivity, high in task persistence, & low in activity are:

Friendship is a voluntary close relationship reciprocally recognized by two individuals

Concrete operations results in:

What helps children maintain friendships?

Learned-helplessness can result from focusing too much on performance goals and not learning goals.

Some children may take until age 8 to learn to produce all the language sounds in their native language. 

Function(s) of friendship is(are):

Which characteristic is NOT typical for victims of bullying?

The large growth in vocabulary knowledge that takes place during the school-age period is mainly due to growth of:

Neglected children are those who have a lot of people say that they dislike them.

A teacher was passing back tests, Simon looked at Elliot’s desk to try to get a peek at Elliot’s grade. Simon was:

A ten-year-old is most likely to describe himself

Roots of Empathy is a program for school-aged children with a curriculum built around classroom visits with a baby.

4 Factors for friendship formation are: environment, genetics, situational factors, and parental factors.

According to Erikson, in the school-age (7 to 11) children are in the initiative versus guilt stage.

Identifying the source of stress and deciding what to do about it is the basis of:

We assess reading skill to see if the child can accurately read without mistakes. This is all that is important.

Girls can never achieve the same level of math ability as boys because they do not have the brain structures necessary.

Avoiding interactions with another child or telling others to stay away from that child is a form of:

Which of the following is an (are) example(s) of instrumental aggression?

The ability to manipulate sounds in language such as identifying first sounds or rhyming is: