Exam 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

The better a child's short-term and working memories are, the better the child's overall cognitive abilities (e.g., language, intelligence, and so forth).

Children tend to use ________ in which they add ideas and examples to their essays as the ideas come into their minds.

Memory that endures over a long period of time, is permanent, and is unlimited is called

According to Chall's theory of reading development, the stage fluency occurs at which age period?

Understanding that the word "duck" can refer to a bird that flies and swims or a warning that you are going to run into a tree branch is called

What percentage of individuals in the United States are poor readers?

What is the difference between concept nodes and links in network models?

What are the major criticisms of the information-processing approach to cognitive development?

Performing well on short-term and working memory tasks has been found to be correlated with better cognitive functioning in all of the following areas except

Both the connectionist models and the production systems use computer simulations to examine cognitive processes.

Compared to verbatim trace memories, fuzzy trace memories are

Researchers who believe in the network model view long-term memory as all of the following except as

Which of the following characteristics is true of children's thought during early childhood?

The term used to refer to the rules for combining words into sentences is ________.

As children get older, they tend to use what type of strategy to determine mathematical quantity?

The sentence "Store go to the Mommy" violates the ________ of the English language.

What factor best predicts success in early reading?

According to the network model, the farther away an activation travels from its original source

According to the _____________ model of cognitive development, an important difference in thinking between early and middle childhood is an increase in the number and complexity of rules that children use to reason about a particular situation.

It has only been for the last five years or so that the information-processing approach has been the dominant model for examining cognitive development.