M6 Middle Childhood Cognitive

2. difficulty in one or more areas of learning, even when overall intelligence or motivation is not affected; __________ disability
9. Sternberg’s theory that recognizes three forms of intelligence: academic, creative, and practical; _________________ theory of intelligence
10. distribution bell shaped curve which is the pattern of scores where the bulk of scores fall in the middles and are distributed equally at the ends
11. memory aids that help organize information for encoding; _____________ device
12. those who fall into the extreme ends, or tails, of a normal distribution for a characteristic (such as IQ)
13. take time to develop, they don't all arrive at once; ______________ of acquisition
14. Piaget's cognitive stage in Middle Childhood when children before more logical, flexible and organized; _______________ Operational Stage

1. process of monitoring one's progress toward a goal; cognitive self-_______________
3. technique in which you think about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory
4. a formal document which identifyies all services and accommodations needed to allow a child with a disability to fully particpate in school
5. a specific learning disability characterized by difficulties with writing
6. able to focus on more than one aspect of a problem (e.g., height and width) and coordinate them
7. order items along quantitative dimension
8. teaching reading by teaching letter-sound correspondences