Exam 13: Cognitive Development Throughout the Lifespan

A father says to his son,"Go over to the chair and get my overcoat." (The overcoat is the only item on the chair.)The next day,the son talks about his daddy's overcoat; apparently he has already learned this new word.This is an example of

According to the discussion of infants’ memory,

The research on the relationship between metamemory and children's memory performance is complicated.However,a general pattern is that

One important reason that research on infant cognitive abilities is difficult to conduct is that

Suppose that you are scanning a journal in child development.You see the title of an article about language,which emphasizes the word "morphology." The most likely topic of this article would be how children

Which of the following is an example of the concept overregularization?

The discussion of children's metamemory examined research by Roebers and her colleagues.This research asked 5-10-year-old children to judge whether they had answered memory questions correctly.The results showed that

Which of the following students provides the best summary of the research on children's metamemory?

Carolyn Rovee-Collier's research used a moving mobile or a moving train to assess infant memory.This research shows

If children follow Marcus's "rule-and-memory" theory for creating the plural form of nouns,we would expect that English-speaking children would

Research on elderly people shows that they often take longer to perform cognitive tasks than do younger adults.This phenomenon is called

Younger infants are actually more skilled than older infants and adults in

Chapter 13 examined an experiment by Leichtman and Ceci on preschool children's eyewitness testimony.According to this research,

Jason is a 10-year-old boy who knows that a science test is scheduled for tomorrow morning.According to the discussion of children's metacognition,Jason probably

Chapter 13 discusses elderly people's awareness of memory problems.According to this discussion,

Some of the research on children's eyewitness testimony has important implications for the courtroom.According to that research,

Air traffic controllers are required to retire at the age of 56.This is because of age-related declines in

The research on implicit memory in older adults shows that

As discussed in Chapter 13,researchers admit that we do not yet have a complete explanation for the fact that-on some long-term tasks-elderly adults remember less than young adults.However,which of the following students provides the best summary of one factor that accounts for age-related differences?

Your textbook describes several methodological problems that arise when conducting research with elderly individuals.These problems included the fact that