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Jake,who speaks only English,has moved to Spain with his family.He attends a public school.All of his school subjects are taught in Spanish.Jake is learning Spanish through:

A) a Spanish-as-a-second-language program.
B) an ESL program.
C) bilingual schooling.
D) immersion.

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Question 122

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Mastery of pragmatics allows children to change styles of speech,or "codes," depending on the audience.What code are children likely to use with their peers?

A) informal code
B) formal code
C) moderate code
D) extreme code

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A child can have autistic symptoms for many reasons.This reflects the developmental principle of:

Metacognition is:

A test designed to see how well a child is reading at the third-grade level is called a(n)"_____ test."

According to Jean Piaget,children gain the ability to use _____ during middle childhood.

Unlike Jean Piaget,who thought children would discover most concepts themselves,Lev Vygotsky stressed _____ from teachers and mentors who provided the needed scaffold between potential and knowledge by engaging each child in his or her zone of proximal development.

About 1 out of every 500 children shows signs of autism spectrum disorder.

Andrew is in the grocery store with his mom and he sees the candy-like cereal he saw advertised on television.He asks his mom to purchase it and she says no.He continues to beg,bargain,and pout until she concedes.Andrew demonstrated _____ power.

Which factor contributes to increases in a child's knowledge base?

Leo is very talented at drawing and obsessive about details when drawing pictures.His speech is impaired and he tends to shy away from other children and is awkward when trying to relate to others.Which diagnosis would BEST fit Leo's behavior?

Howard Gardner proposed that there are _____ different types of intelligences.

To say that disorders are _____ means that two or more different disorders are present in the same person.

One problem with smaller school class sizes is that:

Approximately one in ten children in the United States is home-schooled.

Approximately _____ percent of all U.S.children are currently home-schooled.

The presence of two or more unrelated disease conditions at the same time in the same person is referred to as "comorbidity."

The field that uses insights into typical development to understand and remediate developmental disorders is called "developmental psychology."

Clarissa is tested on her mastery of college chemistry.She is taking a(n) :

Decades of research throughout the world have found a _____ correlation between academic achievement and SES,largely due to language.