Exam 8: Cognition

Carla was testing the "A,not B" error with her son,Alex.Carla put a ball under a blue blanket several times,and Alex searched for the ball under the blue blanket.Then Carla put the ball under the yellow blanket,and Alex looked at the yellow blanket but again reached under the blue blanket.This suggests that Alex

Most adolescents are invulnerable to the gambler's fallacy.

In the Iowa Gambling Task,

Jack,a preschooler,is still grappling with egocentrism.Jack is likely to have difficulty communicating effectively and understanding the perspective of another person.

Armando's ability to strategize will likely increase with each different problem he approaches.Variability may enhance his learning even more because it provides experiences to test different problem-solving approaches.

Which of the Piagetian stages is defined as the time in development during which thought becomes symbolic in form?

The knowledge a child has about attention may be gleaned from _________ emphasized in his or her culture.

Scaffolding involves a situation where

What is the role of the executive function?

When caregivers carefully monitor the support they provide in helping a child complete an activity that the child is eventually able to do on his or her own,they are demonstrating the concept of ________,according to Lev Vygotsky.

Patricia Bauer and her colleagues have used a method called elicited imitation to test memory in infants.What is this method,and what does it reveal about infant memory capabilities?

Memory represents the first step in cognitive processing,as it ensures that information will enter the system.

It seems that the ability to perform more demanding memory tasks coincides with the development of the

Which of the following is not an aspect of planning?

Operations are

Why does planning depend on representational capacities?

Greg and Stanley are both five years old.Greg has a greater attention span than Stanley,and he is able to persist in tasks much better than Stanley.According to some research on attention,

Lev Vygotsky's theory of cognition uses a social basis for cognitive development.Provide a hypothetical example of a child mastering a skill using Vygotsky's apprenticeship style model.

Dr.Mitchell has been exploring how the ability to solve mathematics problems develops in young children.Her area of developmental research is primarily concerned with

Janelle remembers the time her parents brought her to see The Lion King.Janelle's memory is a(n)________ memory.