Exam 12: Seciton 3: Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development

Jill has just heard her teacher say something. The sounds produced by the teacher are first stored in Jill's _____.

Control processes improve with _____.

Eduardo is in the fourth grade. Part of the instruction in his classroom is conducted in English and part is conducted in Spanish. His classroom uses _____.

With concrete operational thought, children can _____.

While literacy and numeracy are valued in every school, curriculum specifics _____.

What is the main international test of reading given to students?

In recent years, Finland has gained a great deal of attention for its very successful educational system. Which statement about Finland's educational reform is FALSE?

From an information-processing approach, the memory process has three major steps. What is the correct order of this process, beginning with the first component?

Approximately what percent of the world's 7-year-olds are in school?

With respect to sociocultural context, children from the Varanasi region in India learn what specific ability from their culture?

Which information is most likely to be in your current working memory?

Decades of research throughout the world have found a _____ correlation between academic achievement and socioeconomic status, largely due to language.

Which factor contributes to increases in a child's knowledge base?

Strategies for processing information within working memory _____.

Research indicates that achievement in middle childhood is _____ teacher and parent expectations.

Dr. Holiday is doing a study to determine how 9-year-olds think. Based on theory, he believes that the 9-year-olds should be able to reason logically about concrete situations, situations that are real, tangible, and visible. Dr. Holiday's belief is based on _____.

Evaluating a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish and monitor one's performance is called _____.

Tony came to walk with José to school. When José saw Tony's notebook in his backpack, José rushed back into his house to retrieve his own notebook, which contained his homework. José's sensation upon seeing Tony's notebook became a perception, which triggered José's _____.

Which statement is TRUE?

The information-processing theory was inspired by the knowledge of how _____ function.