Exam 4: Information Processing, Memory, and Problem Solving

You give a three-year-old some cards depicting two shapes (e.g., dogs and cookies) that are drawn in two colors (e.g., black and yellow). Ask the child to first sort by color. After sorting several cards, ask to switch tasks and sort by shape. This is best described as a test of what?

Which of the following is true of spaced practice?

Ms. Sally Mae begins teaching a unit on the Civil War. She asks her students to think of all the Civil War battle sites, movies, and memorials they can think of. Sally Mae is doing which of the following?

Why are people's mental maps often inaccurate?

An advantage of knowing some skills so well that they are automatic is that when mental processes are automatic, it

Research suggests that if you want to remember something for several years, you should space your practice by

Sometimes the chemistry class takes its exams in the lecture hall where the professor lectures, and sometimes in the testing center. Which of the following explains why test scores tend to be better in the lecture hall?

According to the book, what is one reason why medication is a controversial treatment for ADHD?

Which of the following is an example of the keyword method?

As children grow older and become more skilled in math, they

Sally is reading her history textbook and realizes that she is using a poor strategy for remembering what she has read. What has been activated?

Which of the following is true of preschoolers' math knowledge?

You give a three-year-old some cards depicting two shapes (e.g., dogs and cookies) that are drawn in two colors (e.g., black and yellow). Ask the child to first sort by color. After sorting several cards, ask the child to switch tasks and sort by shape. What is the child likely to do?

Which component of the information processing model generally holds the least amount of information for the shortest length of time?

Which of the following is good testing policy?

Describe two strategies preschool teachers and parents can use to foster mathematical thinking in preschoolers.

The graph shown below depicts children's improvement in what mental capacity?

Which of the following is true of memory?

Which approach dominates current national standards for math instruction?

A key point of the overlapping waved model is that children's strategy use