Intellectual Development of School Age Children

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What allows for higher cognitive functions in the pre-frontal cortex?

• pruning
• metacognition
• wiring
• plasticity

What allows for faster and more efficient thinking in the developing brain of a school-age child?

• pruning
• metacognition
• wiring
• plasticity

The awareness of one’s own knowledge that develops as the brain reorganizes during puberty is

• plasticity
• wiring
• metacognition
• pruning

What causes a tendency to narrow interests in the brain development of a school-age child?

• less plasticity
• metacognition
• wiring
• pruning

What cognitive advancement in a school-age child allows them to focus on relevant aspects of the environment?

• attention
• memory

What cognitive advancement in school-age children allows them to develop skills, including rehearsing, organizing information, and using visual and verbal aids?

• attention
• memory

Which stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development includes thinking logically, but the logic is based on past experiences?

• concrete operational stage
• formal operational stage
• sensorimotor stage
• preoperational stage

Which stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development involves the ability to think abstractly and includes scientific reasoning and the ability to hypothesize?

• concrete operational stage
• formal operational stage
• sensorimotor stage
• preoperational stage

Identify the ways school-age children overcome obstacles to logical thought. Select all that apply.

• do not see the world from the viewpoint of others
• noting transformations
• do not focus on more than one part simultaneously
• using deductive and inductive reasoning