Exam 7: Cognitive Development: an Information-Processing Perspective

When researchers showed 2-month-olds a series of pictures that alternated in a predictable left-right sequence, the babies learned to shift their focus to the location of the next stimulus before it appeared. These findings indicate that the seeds of __________ are present in infancy.

How can adults influence children's autobiographical narratives?

Educators who advocate a whole-language approach to reading argue that

A major strength of the information-processing approach is

Siegler's model of strategy choice

Yolanda has learned how to solve math problems by rote, which means she

Which of the following types of media multitasking do U.S. teenagers report engaging in most frequently?

Ten-year-old Martine is reading a story. When she gets to a difficult section, she does not slow down. Martine has not yet mastered

Describe and evaluate Siegler's model of strategy choice.

Because __________ appears early and develops rapidly, it is probably a fairly automatic process.

__________ optimal development of executive components and their eventual synthesis into planning, flexible strategic thinking, and self-regulation.

After returning from a cousin's birthday party, Malik asks his 4-year-old son, "What was the first thing you did at the party?" "Why didn't Jarrod open his presents before you ate cake?" "I thought the clown was really funny. What did you think?" Malik is using a(n) __________ narrative style.

Research on infantile amnesia suggests that events that happened during the first few years of life are not remembered because

The more information we process in working memory and the more effectively we process it, the more likely it will transfer to

Research on building memory suggests that

According to Goldin-Meadow, children who produce speech-gesture mismatches on addition-based equivalence problems

Studies of mathematical reasoning indicate that

On average, a preschooler from a low-income family is read to for a total of _____ hours during early childhood, a middle-income child for _____ hours.

The information-processing approach focuses mainly on

Kuhn's research suggests that young children often have difficulties with scientific reasoning because they