Exam 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Research indicates that inventive spelling ______________ children's ability to learn to correctly spell words later on.

It can be difficult to determine whether a memory of a traumatic event is accurate or whether it is influenced by others' interpretations of the event.

Given a list of words to remember, Helen notices that half of the words are items from the kitchen, while the other half are items from the garage. She realizes that by _____________ the words into two groups, it will be easier to remember them.

Contrast the performance of preoperational and concrete operational children on the liquid and number conservation tasks.

Which kind of event is likely to be found in the sensory store?

An important difference between short-term store and working memory is that the latter

Compared to older children, younger children's knowledge bases are

All of the following factors contribute to difficulties completing mathematical word problems except

Production systems models and connectionist models are similar in that they both

Older children and adults tend to store memories and to reason with verbatim traces, whereas younger children tend to rely on fuzzy traces.

The strategy most likely to be used by young children to determine the answer to an addition or subtraction problem is the ________.

When using the strategy of rehearsal, older children tend to use a cumulative style-repeating everything several times. In contrast, younger children use a passive style-repeating ________ they are trying to remember.

What cognitive approach proposes that children are probabilistic learners?