Exam 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Briefly define each of the following terms related to language development: semantic knowledge, syntax, and pragmatic language.

At which of Chall's stages in reading does fluency with words allow children to move to less familiar material (i.e., "reading to learn")?

All of the following are stages in Chall's theory except

Research indicates that children expert chess players outperform novice adult chess players because the children have better memories.

Piaget proposed that children in the concrete operational stage understand _______________, which is the idea that two actions like filling and emptying a cup lead to opposite results.

Ashley is taking a class on Piaget and as part of an assignment, has to interview children. She gives 7-year-old Andrew a bag of red and blue candies. They discuss how the candies are made of chocolate. Andrew counts the candies-7 red and 14 blue. Ashley asks, "Are there more blue candies or chocolate candies?" Andrew looks at her and laughs: "Of course there are more chocolate candies-they are all made of chocolate." This demonstrates that Andrew understands the concept of

Five-year-old Marco complains that his slice of cake is smaller than Maria's, his 10-year-old sister. But she explains, "Look, your slice is skinnier, but it's taller. So we really have the same amount." Which aspect of concrete operational reasoning does Maria's explanation use?

The amount of information a person knows on a particular topic is called their ________.

When adults have "remember when you..." conversations with children, they are trying to teach children how to describe their ________ memories.

Thomas is asked to arrange toy trains from shortest to longest. This is most likely a test for

Several recent studies suggest that activity in the _________ lobe is related to the executive processor (or executive function).

When 8-year-old Jamal is asked to sort a pile of circles, squares, and triangles of various sizes and colors, he will probably be

What are stories about personal experiences called?

What is the perceptual process that we use to quickly determine the quantity of a small set of objects?

Which of the following is the best example of metalinguistic awareness?

Telephone numbers are organized into groups of numbers: the area code, the first three digits, and the last four digits. According to the stores model, this is because

At what age are children able to tell a classic narrative?

The major criticisms of the information-processing approach include all of the following except that

As your friend is walking to class, she drops a few coins from her pocket. You quickly glance at the ground and tell her that she has dropped three coins. This is most likely an example of the process called

"Carol is older than Lexi and Lexi older than Tyler. Who is older Carol or Tyler?" The ability to solve problems such as this demonstrates the concept of