Exam 8: Memory and Information Processing

The fact that people are unable to recall events that took place during the first two years after birth is called infantile _____.

On average, older adults are faster on timed tasks than young adults.

Seventy-year-old Ace decides that he cannot remain effective at all types of gambling so he decides to focus only on blackjack, with the hopes that this narrow focus will allow him to perform better in this one area. According to the SOC approach, the decision to abandon other forms of gambling represents

Younger children tend to rely more on _____ than older children.

Early memories tend to be very cue-dependent and context-specific.

Len has a mediation deficiency. Ben has a production deficiency. Ken has a utilization deficiency. How many of these children would be able to both produce and benefit from their own memory strategies?

The information-processing approach stresses all of the following basic mental processes EXCEPT

On which type of problem-solving task would the performance of a middle-aged adult be superior to that of a young adult?

On the "balance beam problem," which child would be most likely to always guess that the side with the more weights will drop?

What types of memory tasks cause older adults the most problems? On which types of tasks do older individuals have the least difficulty?

On a political science test, Barack is asked to write down the name of the main democratic presidential candidate in the United States in 2008. He has no idea of the answer, so he asked his teacher for a hint. The teacher says, "I can tell you this, when he won my friend said, "oh mama." With the hint, Barack is now being presented with a _____ memory task.

How is Piaget's explanation of cognitive development different from that of Siegler's explanation?

At which age do people do better on recall tasks than on recognition tasks?

Six-month-old Frances has been listening to her mother, Courtney, singing for the past 20 minutes. How would Frances demonstrate habituation?

If a teacher were to apply Siegler's findings on the use of problem-solving strategies in the classroom, the teacher would

In what ways are the autobiographical memory young children and older adults similar? How do they differ?

A(n) _____ memory occurs as the result of a deliberate, intentional effort.

Cognitive theorists suggest that the most likely order of the process of memory when information is being processed for the first time would be

_____ teens are most likely to utilize metacognitive strategies.

Which pair best describes the memory abilities of a human infant?