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Intellectual Development of School-Age Children

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which theorist believed that cognitive development during childhood happens in four stages?

a)

Montessori

b)

Piaget

c)

Vygotsky

d)

Gardner

2.

Which theorist believed that cognitive development is dependent on social interaction?

a)

Montessori

b)

Piaget

c)

Vygotsky

d)

Gardner

3.

Which theorist came up with the theory of multiple intelligences?

a)

Montessori

b)

Piaget

c)

Vygotsky

d)

Gardner

4.

Vygotsky believed that children learn best when they are stretched within their....

a)

ZPD

b)

ABC

c)

XYZ

5.

What does ZPD stand for?

a)

zone of practical development

b)

zone of purposeful development

c)

zone of proximal development

6.

Children tend to do what as they problem solve?

a)

get frustrated

b)

give up

c)

keep going

d)

talk out loud

7.

Children gain physical knowledge by observing what happens when objects are acted upon such as a toy car rolling down a ramp or a ball being thrown up in the air. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

8.

In the concrete operational stage, kids begin to think more logically but their logic is based on what?

a)

past experiences

b)

strategies

c)

their reasoning abilities

9.

In the formal operational stage kids begin to think more_____?

a)

seriously

b)

logically

c)

abstractly

10.

Which of the following is not a logical thinking concept?

a)

classification

b)

ordering by attributes

c)

time concepts

d)

observing

e)

cause and effect

11.

Most children have mastered all sounds (articulation) by age_____.

a)

6

b)

7

c)

8

d)

9

12.

By age 10-12, most children have a vocabulary of over______words.

a)

5200

b)

7200

c)

9200

13.

True or False? Humans do not have a specialized area of the brain for reading, but rather they make grapheme-phoneme connections.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Which of the following is not one of the nine multiple intelligences?

a)

naturalist

b)

optimist

c)

existential

d)

rhythmic

e)

kinesthetic

15.

At what age do children get humor such as jokes, puns, etc.?

a)

4-5

b)

5-6

c)

8-9

d)

6-7

16.

Children begin to gain the concept of conservation (such as conserving the area of a graham cracker when broken in half) at age 5-6. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

17.

One of the last logical thinking concepts to develop is the concept of time. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

18.

What is the age range of children in middle childhood?

a)

1-3 years of age

b)

3-6 years of age

c)

6-12 years of age

d)

13-18 years of age

19.

There are ways of measuring a child's strengths and intelligences other than their I.Q. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

20.

The section of the brain involved in logical reasoning, forming judgments, weighing the consequences of actions, making decisions, controlling impulses and more is called the what?

a)

amygdala

b)

nucleus accumbens

c)

prefrontal cortex

21.

Pruning is not still happening in middle childhood. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False