Exam 7: Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills

When questioning children, interviewers should pursue only one explanation of what happened.

After Jake set the table, his mother asked him whether he had put napkins on the table. Even though he hadn't, Jake replied "yes" and believed he had because he knew that putting napkins on the table was part of what he always did when he set the table. Jake's distorted memory is best explained as

According to Siegler's overlapping waves model, children use multiple strategies to solve problems, and over time, these strategies are faster, more accurate, and take less effort.

Changing language ability from infancy to adulthood is NOT related to infantile amnesia.

For young children, the mechanical demands of printing letters often interfere with the quality of their writing.

You are part of a parent group formed to determine how your school system can improve students' academic performance. Based on research on academic excellence in Japanese and Taiwanese schools, which of the following suggestions would you make?

The brain structures primarily responsible for the initial storage of information - including the hippocampus and frontal cortex - seem to develop by

__________ refers to people's memory of the significant events and experiences of their own lives.

Young babies can remember events only for a few minutes or hours.

Retrieving answers to math problems from memory is more likely

Metatmemory includes the ability to diagnose problems accurately and to monitor the effectiveness of a memory strategy.

When Dan sees three objects, sometimes he counts them as "1, 2, 5," sometimes as "1, 2, b," and other times as "2, 1,A " Dan

Knowledge in a specific area helps organize and give meaning to information in that area.

Your brother, Pretesh, is concerned that his 2-year-old daughter's counting ability is well below average. When she counts, his daughter will say, "1, 2, c, door...door balls" when counting the four balls in a picture book. What can you tell Pretesh about the mastery of the principles of counting that will reassure him that his daughter's counting ability is fine?

Children, but not adolescents, often devise experiments in which variables are confounded.

Chi's study comparing memory in child chess experts and adult chess novices demonstrated

The inability to recall events from infancy is referred to as

After children begin to receive formal arithmetic instruction in first grade, addition problems are solved less frequently by counting fingers while they are solved more frequently by counting mentally.

One day Ellie takes her 2-month-old baby, Eric, to her friend's home and puts him in a rocking cradle. Eric soon learns that if he wiggles and waves his arms the cradle will rock. Several weeks later, Ellie and Eric return to the friend's house. How would you expect Eric to respond when he is once again placed in The cradle?

Gene has discovered that even though he has underlined the most important information in the textbook, he does not know any of the material very well. What should he do?