Discuss the role that gender plays in the diagnosis of intellectual disability
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More boys than girls have a diagnosis of intellectual disability, but these sex differences are primarily among those with the mild type and may result from differences in children's verbal abilities. At younger ages, girls have superior verbal language skills, and this may affect their test performance. No sex differences are found among those with the more severe forms of intellectual disability.
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Parental income and education levels are related to children's receptive and expressive vocabulary at age 2 to 4 years. The differences among families may occur because parents with higher income and/or education levels __________.
A. more frequently play language games and talk about picture books with their children B. are more likely to play language games but not to talk about picture books C. engage in fewer conversational turns with their children, but tend to lecture them D. use up to 1 million more words around their children by age 2 than parents with lower income and education levels
Divided attention is to _____ as the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is to _____.
A) transience; absentmindedness B) absentmindedness; transience C) transience; blocking D) absentmindedness; blocking
__________ is strongly associated with 9-month-olds' formation of an increasingly context-free memory
A) Food B) Talking C) Punishment D) Crawling
Fibers linking the __________ to the __________ grow and myelinate from birth through the preschool years, contributing to dramatic gains in motor coordination
A) cerebellum; cerebral cortex B) corpus callosum; reticular formation C) reticular formation; cerebellum D) cerebral cortex; hippocampus