Exam 7: Cognitive Development: Cognitive Processes

When children practice basic skills over and over again, they can eventually perform them quickly and with little thought or effort. An advantage of such automatization is that the skills:

Three of the following students are showing signs of self-regulated learning. Which student does not show any evidence of self-regulated learning?

Which one of the following statements best describes intersubjectivity?

Adults often engage young children in discussions about past events. Which one of the following is least likely to result from such discussions?

Which learning strategy are we most likely to see second graders use?

Developmental Concepts in Late Adolescence: Like many high school students, John has depended largely on rehearsal to study for his test. Any comprehension monitoring probably involved testing himself on facts and definitions rather than checking to see whether he could apply the material to new situations. Quite possibly John's epistemological beliefs about school subject matter include the idea that "knowing" something simply means being able to recite specific facts.

Fourteen-year-old Trevor spends several hours each night reading and studying his textbooks, yet he rarely earns a grade above D on quizzes that assess what he has learned. Which one of the following is apt to be most useful in your efforts to help Trevor study more effectively?

Alicia (who is African American), Amy (who is Japanese American), and Ann (whose Jewish grandparents immigrated from Poland) are in the same tenth-grade history class. They are studying together for a test on World War II. The girls share the opinion that racism was a widespread problem during the war, but they disagree about which actions were most racist in nature. Which one of the following explanations of their differences is most consistent with contemporary theories of cognitive development?

Children's misconceptions about the world may come from a variety of sources. Which one of the following is not a likely source that theorists have identified?

Ms. Dante notices that one of her students is not submitting her homework on time. This has been happening on a consistent basis. Which one of the following would be most likely to be helpful for Ms. Dante to use to help her student to submit the work in a timely manner?

Only one of the following statements is consistent with what we know about the development of attention and its role in children's learning. Which one?

Three of the following children have been identified as having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Which one is least likely to have ADHD?

If you were to suggest one of the most effective ways for teachers to help their students learn new information more effectively, which of the following would be the most effective strategy?

Which of the following can teachers do that will be most likely to encourage self-regulated learning?

Marco is taking an elective class on world religions. As he studies, he thinks about how certain tenets of Islam are in some ways similar to his own Christian beliefs. What learning strategy is Marco using?

Which one of the following best reflects the use of the sensory register component of the human information processing system?

Which one of the following best illustrates the phenomenon of infantile amnesia as developmental theorists typically use the term?

Which one of the following examples best illustrates involvement of a central executive in information processing?

Which one of the following is the best illustration of metacognition?