Exam 7: Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills

Your 4-year-old daughter is going to testify in court about an event she witnessed. What could you do to make her testimony as reliable as possible?

Monitoring effective strategy use

When Chi asked child chess experts and adult chess novices to remember sequences of numbers and positions of chess pieces on a chess board, she found that

Autobiographical memories are richer when parents talk about past events in detail and encourage the child to participate in these conversations.

Children who are not aware of letter sounds learn to read as well as children who are aware of letter sounds.

Melody has eaten at fast food restaurants many times. She remembers that first you wait in line, then you order your food, pay for it, carry it to a table, eat, and finally, throw away your trash. Melody's knowledge about the events that typically occur when eating at a fast food restaurant is best described as

The stable-order principle states that number names must be counted in the same order.

Being able to hear the distinctive sounds made by different letters is called

Reliable testimony from preschoolers is often hard to get. Which of the following is NOT one of the explanations for the difficulties with eyewitness testimony in children?

According to Gelman and Meck, the one-to-one principle, the stable-order principle, and the cardinality principle are usually mastered by

Your friend, Jason, is a concerned father and he would like to do all that he can to help his 4-year-old daughter, Gwen, learn to read. What can you tell Jason about pre-reading skills that are related to more skilled reading in first grade?

Memory strategies are techniques or activities that improve remembering. Name and briefly discuss different memory strategies that people use.