Exam 13: Cognitive Development Throughout the Lifespan

Suppose that you are enrolled in a child development course. In discussing children's memory, the professor says, "Preschool children are likely to demonstrate utilization deficiency." Which of the following options would be the most likely next sentence?

Suppose that you are scanning a journal in child development. You see the title of an article about language, which emphasizes the word "morphology." The most likely topic of this article would be how children

Which of the following students provides the best summary of the research on children's metamemory?

Jenny is 4 years old, and she has recently learned that she should not tell other people that they are fat. What aspect of language has this child demonstrated?

The research on children's eyewitness testimony shows that

Research on elderly people shows that they often take longer to perform cognitive tasks than do younger adults. This phenomenon is called

Carolyn Rovee-Collier and her colleagues conducted research to see whether infants demonstrate the spacing effect. The results of this research showed that

The research on implicit memory in older adults shows that

According to the research on children's working memory,

Chapter 13 discusses elderly people's awareness of memory problems. According to this discussion,

The research on infants' speech perception suggests that

The discussion of children's metamemory examined research by Roebers and her colleagues. This research asked 5-10-year-old children to judge whether they had answered memory questions correctly. The results showed that

A father says to his son, "Go over to the chair and get my overcoat." (The overcoat is the only item on the chair.) The next day, the son talks about his daddy's overcoat; apparently he has already learned this new word. This is an example of

According to the research on infant speech perception,

Suppose that you are reading a story to a group of 6-year-old children; the story concerns a young child who is dancing around the room. You say to the children, "Try to think about how it would feel if you were dancing around this classroom." Based on the research of Foley and Ratner (1998), you would probably find that

When Carolyn Rovee-Collier and other researchers use the conjugate reinforcement technique,

According to research by Walker-Andrews, the understanding that facial expression must correspond with vocal intonation is present at the age of

According to the introductory information about cognitive skills in elderly people,

Chapter 13 discussed the development of imagery as a strategy for improving children's memory. According to this discussion,

According to the discussion of child-directed speech,