Exam 7: B: Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills

When 14-year-old Allison writes a story, she first decides what she wants to write about and then thinks about how she could most effectively organize the information to get her ideas across to the reader. Allison uses a ________ writing strategy.

After Tina outlined a chapter in her textbook, she answered questions in her study guide to see whether outlining was helping her learn the information in the chapter. Tina was ________ the effectiveness of her memory strategy.

As children get older, their writing improves because

If Lela is a typical American fifth grade student and Seiko is a typical Japanese student of the same age, you would expect to find that

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

Four-year-old Jasmine is asked to remember objects on a tray that she is shown for one minute. During the minute she is shown the objects, Jasmine looks at and touches each object. Jasmine is

Your four-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?

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

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the improvements in writing that occur as children mature?

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

Which of the following is accomplished by memory strategies?

Young babies are

________ transform the information in a problem into mental representation

In Leichtman and Ceci's study on the effects of repeated questioning and being given a stereotype on the accuracy of preschool children's memory of an incident, they found children were

Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the impact of scripts on memory?

A group of teachers is discussing how children read. Which of them made a TRUE statement?

All of the following are how-to-count principles described by Gelman and Meck (1986) EXCEPT

Retrieving answers to math problems from memory is more likely

As Wendy read her textbook, she wrote summaries of each section. When she met with her study group, she was able to answer many but not all of the questions posed by her study group. What should she do next?