Child Psychology: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

What is the ability to understand that processes that transform a stimulus can be reversed, transforming the object to its original state?

• Transformation
• Reversibility
• Adaptation
• Conservation

A score that expresses the ratio between a person's mental and chronological ages.

• Mental Age Index (MAI)
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
• Cognitive Ability Score (CAS)
• Emotional Quotient (EQ)

This type of memory, in which an understanding about the processes that underlie memory, emerges and improves during middle childhood.

• Episodic memory
• Semantic memory
• Working memory
• Metamemory

A cognitive framework that organizes information relevant to gender?

• gender role
• gender identity
• gender schema
• gender stereotype

Despite the advances that occur during the concrete operational stage, children still experience this one critical limitation in their thinking.

• Abstract thinking limitations
• Concrete reasoning limitations
• Limited memory capacity
• Difficulty with logical sequences

The maturation of people's sense of justice, of what is right and wrong, and their behavior in connection with such issues is _________________________.

• ethical reasoning
• social conformity
• cognitive dissonance
• moral development

A person's identity or set of beliefs about what one is like as an individual.

• Cultural identity
• Self-concept

• Social identity
• Self-perception

An orientation that promotes interdependence and places the needs of the group above the needs of the individual.

• Egoism
• Collectivism
• Individualism
• Self-reliance

Intelligence tests used most frequently in school settings are based on what type of intelligence?

• General intelligence
• Creative intelligence
• Social intelligence
• Emotional intelligence

What is the parenting style that is controlling, punitive, rigid, and cold?

• Permissive parenting
• Neglectful parenting
• Democratic parenting
• Authoritarian parenting