Exam 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

According to the fuzzy trace theory, young children perform worse on memory tasks compared to older children and adults because they

Research indicates that eyewitness memory is not influenced by reconstructive memory.

In Piaget's stage of concrete operations, children can think

All of the following are storage areas within the stores model of memory except the

Show a 7-year-old child five toy horses and three toy cows, and then ask, "Are there more horses or more animals?" If the child responds, "More animals," he or she is most likely to be in the

In "Children's Eyewitness Testimony: The Truth, the Whole Truth, Nothing but the Truth?" it is noted that both children and adults become ____________ their memories if they receive feedback confirming their reports.

The fact that our memory is influenced by previous knowledge, memories, and the current context implies that memory is

As you head down the stairs on the way to your psychology class, another student looks at you and says, "Hi." You try to remember the person's name to say "Hello" back. However, you remember that it is your roommate's best friend and that she has never told you his name. This example most likely illustrates

Information stored in the ________ is infinite and permanent.

What is currently known about how autobiographical and semantic memories are processed at the neural level?

What is the earliest evidence of humans' ability to understand basic mathematical ideas?

Younger children cannot be taught specific memory strategies.

The best way to help children understand and remember mathematical knowledge is to

The one major limitation in concrete operational thought is the ability to

Derek understands that the word "that" is made up of two small units "th" and "at." This understanding most likely illustrates that Derek has

A study of Brazilian children who were experienced at selling products at street stands found that the children were good at solving word problems that had a "selling" context. However, the children performed much worse on word problems that required the same computations but

Mrs. Hicks is grading her fifth grade classes' spelling quizzes. She notices that one of her students, Matt, is having difficulty with some words. For example, he wrote the spelling for the word "cantaloupe" as "cantellope." Having knowledge of child development, Mrs. Hicks knows that Matt is using ________ spelling.

List and define the various components of the connectionist model.

According to your text, which of the following factors appears to be most important to the development of a strong knowledge base?

The production systems model of Piaget's liquid conservation task presented in Table 11.1 describes a series of four models. In particular, Model IV systematically includes both the height and width of each container. The capacity to consider multiple aspects of the problem is closest to which aspect of concrete operational thought?