Lifespan Finals-jersey college Exam
Questions And All Correct Answers.
growth spurt - Answer a period during which growth advances at a dramatically rapid rate
compared with other periods
gross motor skills - Answer physical abilities involving large body movements, such as walking
and jumping
fine motor skills - Answer physical abilities involving small body movements, especially of the
hands and fingers, such as drawing and picking up a coin
Reaction Time - Answer the amount of time taken to respond to a specific stimulus
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) - Answer a psychological disorder marked by
the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention,
hyperactivity, and impulsivity
hyperactivity - Answer a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement
Stimulants(Ritalin) - Answer Drugs that increase the activity of nervous system.
dyslexia - Answer impairment of the ability to read, word reversal, mirror reading.
learning disability - Answer when a child with normal intelligence has difficulty mastering at
least one academic subject, language and speech
Mainstreaming - Answer placing disabled children in classrooms with nondisabled children
concrete operational stage - Answer in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development
during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about
concrete events
, Seriation - Answer placing objects in an order or series according to a property or trait
preconventional level - Answer according to Kohlberg, a period during which moral judgments
are based largely on expectations of rewards or punishments
conventional level - Answer according to Kohlberg, a period during which moral judgments
largely reflect social rules and conventions
post conventional level - Answer according to Kohlberg, a period during which moral
judgments are derived from moral principles, and people look to themselves to set moral
standards
intelligence - Answer Mental capacity; ability to learn, reason, or comprehend and interpret
information, facts, relationships, and meanings; the capacity to solve problems, whether
through the application of previously acquired knowledge or through insight.
achievement - Answer something done successfully; something gained by working or trying
hard
intelligence quotient (IQ) - Answer defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to
chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 [thus, IQ = (ma/ca) x 100]. On contemporary
intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
mental age - Answer a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the
chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
chronological age - Answer Age as measured in years from date of birth
cultural bias - Answer a factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an
advantage for test takers from certain cultural backgrounds
culture-free - Answer descriptive of a test in which cultural biases have been removed
cultural-familial intellectual disability - Answer substandard intellectual performance
Questions And All Correct Answers.
growth spurt - Answer a period during which growth advances at a dramatically rapid rate
compared with other periods
gross motor skills - Answer physical abilities involving large body movements, such as walking
and jumping
fine motor skills - Answer physical abilities involving small body movements, especially of the
hands and fingers, such as drawing and picking up a coin
Reaction Time - Answer the amount of time taken to respond to a specific stimulus
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) - Answer a psychological disorder marked by
the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention,
hyperactivity, and impulsivity
hyperactivity - Answer a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement
Stimulants(Ritalin) - Answer Drugs that increase the activity of nervous system.
dyslexia - Answer impairment of the ability to read, word reversal, mirror reading.
learning disability - Answer when a child with normal intelligence has difficulty mastering at
least one academic subject, language and speech
Mainstreaming - Answer placing disabled children in classrooms with nondisabled children
concrete operational stage - Answer in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development
during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about
concrete events
, Seriation - Answer placing objects in an order or series according to a property or trait
preconventional level - Answer according to Kohlberg, a period during which moral judgments
are based largely on expectations of rewards or punishments
conventional level - Answer according to Kohlberg, a period during which moral judgments
largely reflect social rules and conventions
post conventional level - Answer according to Kohlberg, a period during which moral
judgments are derived from moral principles, and people look to themselves to set moral
standards
intelligence - Answer Mental capacity; ability to learn, reason, or comprehend and interpret
information, facts, relationships, and meanings; the capacity to solve problems, whether
through the application of previously acquired knowledge or through insight.
achievement - Answer something done successfully; something gained by working or trying
hard
intelligence quotient (IQ) - Answer defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to
chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 [thus, IQ = (ma/ca) x 100]. On contemporary
intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
mental age - Answer a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the
chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
chronological age - Answer Age as measured in years from date of birth
cultural bias - Answer a factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an
advantage for test takers from certain cultural backgrounds
culture-free - Answer descriptive of a test in which cultural biases have been removed
cultural-familial intellectual disability - Answer substandard intellectual performance
