Exam 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

According to "Children's Eyewitness Testimony: The Truth, the Whole Truth, Nothing but the Truth?" under which conditions can the accuracy and details of children's eyewitness reports be good?

A strategy in which children add ideas to their essays as they come to mind is called ________.

When trying to remember everything that she has to get at the store-peaches, strawberries, milk, and eggs-Ashley groups the fruits together in one category and the dairy in another category. Ashley is using which memory strategy?

What is it called when children tell stories in a sequence of events without adding in their own evaluations of the events?

Which of the following is a component of working memory?

The strategy choice model predicts that when there is a weak association between a problem and its correct answer, children will use ______________ such as counting, guessing, or deriving an answer based on known facts or rules.

Children's strategy development has been likened to ________, meaning that children use a variety of strategies ranging in complexity.

According to theory theory, children's cognition is a top-down process, driven by hypotheses that they test.

The conscious, intentional, and controllable plans we use to perform better on tasks is called our knowledge bases.

Sandra is 11 years old, and reasons at Piaget's concrete operational stage of development. Which task is likely to be beyond her ability to solve?

A concrete operational thinker is able to do all of the following except

The best example of elaboration is

According to the stores model, information enters the cognitive system through the

Which activity may help to keep information activated and available in working memory?

Mature writers realize that good writing evolves through the dynamic process of ________; that is, they reevaluate their plan and rewrite several times.

Who said that "the learning and uses of literacy are among the most advanced forms of intelligence, and, compared to other forms, depend more on instruction and practice"?

Critics claim that connectionist models have difficulty explaining ________ in children's language development.

Recent work on production systems models has focused on developing ______________ production systems that "learn" in order to simulate the actual process of developmental change.

Research has found ethnic differences in children's narratives. Hispanic children's narratives ________, whereas African American children's narratives ________.

If a child understands that it is correct to say "The cat ate the mouse" but incorrect to say "Ate the mouse cat," the child has some understanding of