Question 1

A child who is in the two-word stages is likely _________ old.

Accepted Answer

A) ten months 
B) eighteen months 
C) three years 
D) five years

Question 2

When a child says "goed" instead of "went," this is a sign that __________.

Accepted Answer

A) poor parenting has led to developmental delays 
B) the child has learned a grammatical rule 
C) children are not as smart as adults 
D) the child may be dyslexic

Question 3

Rovee-Collier was able to illustrate that infants exhibit some characteristics of episodic memory.What is the name of the method she used to do this,using a ribbon that was tied to the infant's ankle and to an overhead mobile?

Accepted Answer

A) direct activation 
B) autobiographical encoding 
C) similarity attachment 
D) conjugate reinforcement

Question 4

The hardening of the lens in the eye that accompanies aging is called __________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The hardening of the lens in the...

Question 5

For older adults,short-term/working memory span scores are generally __________ those of younger adults.

Accepted Answer

A) lower than 
B) higher than 
C) the same as 
D) more inverted than

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a feature of child-directed speech?

Accepted Answer

A) higher voice pitch 
B) slower speech 
C) quieter voice 
D) exaggerated speaking

Question 7

With very young children,the Stroop task shows a(n)__________ effect.

Accepted Answer

A) augmented 
B) inverse 
C) delayed 
D) negligible

Question 8

At birth,memory and hearing are so underdeveloped that even the mother's voice is unfamiliar to the infant.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

What is the name for the inability to remember life events from before the ages of two to four?

Accepted Answer

A) memory development 
B) infantile amnesia 
C) childhood forgetting 
D) retrograde interference

Question 10

What part of the frontal lobe is most affected by aging?

Accepted Answer

A) dorsolateral 
B) ventromedial 
C) rear strip 
D) all of it

Question 11

Age-related changes in attention involve an increase in inhibitory processes.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The babbling stage of language can best be described as __________.

Accepted Answer

A) morphotactic 
B) irregular 
C) regressive 
D) prelinguistic

Question 13

An infant's visual system matures to adults levels by __________________ of age.

Accepted Answer

The answer of An infant's visual system matures to adults...

Question 14

Children show visual search attention processes that __________.

Accepted Answer

A) are far ahead of those of adults 
B) are way behind those of adults 
C) are similar to those of adults 
D) can be described logarithmically

Question 15

Which of the following metamemory processes is NOT affected by the natural aging process?

Accepted Answer

A) source monitoring 
B) subjective organization 
C) prospective memory 
D) false memories

Question 16

For information that is remembered from episodic long-term memory,the quality of that information for older adults is __________ episodic long-term memory quality for younger adults.

Accepted Answer

A) more convoluted than 
B) worse than 
C) better than 
D) the same as

Question 17

Older adults' declines in episodic memory do not appear to affect their creation and use of flashbulb memories.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In children,linguistic ___________ typically precedes linguistic ______________ .

Accepted Answer

The answer of In children,linguistic ___________ typically precedes linguistic ______________...

Question 19

How many different types of systems are involved in basic number sense?

Accepted Answer

A) one 
B) two 
C) three 
D) four

Question 20

An important thing that aids in how effective children's memories are is __________.

Accepted Answer

A) decreases in breathing rates 
B) increased effectiveness in processing sugars during digestion 
C) the development of metacognition 
D) reduced emotional inhibitions

Exam 14: Cognitive Development

A child who is in the two-word stages is likely _________ old.

When a child says "goed" instead of "went," this is a sign that __________.

Rovee-Collier was able to illustrate that infants exhibit some characteristics of episodic memory.What is the name of the method she used to do this,using a ribbon that was tied to the infant's ankle and to an overhead mobile?

The hardening of the lens in the eye that accompanies aging is called __________.

For older adults,short-term/working memory span scores are generally __________ those of younger adults.

Which of the following is NOT a feature of child-directed speech?

With very young children,the Stroop task shows a(n) __________ effect.

At birth,memory and hearing are so underdeveloped that even the mother's voice is unfamiliar to the infant.

What is the name for the inability to remember life events from before the ages of two to four?

What part of the frontal lobe is most affected by aging?

Age-related changes in attention involve an increase in inhibitory processes.

The babbling stage of language can best be described as __________.

An infant's visual system matures to adults levels by __________________ of age.

Children show visual search attention processes that __________.

Which of the following metamemory processes is NOT affected by the natural aging process?

For information that is remembered from episodic long-term memory,the quality of that information for older adults is __________ episodic long-term memory quality for younger adults.

Older adults' declines in episodic memory do not appear to affect their creation and use of flashbulb memories.

In children,linguistic _ typically precedes linguistic ____ .

How many different types of systems are involved in basic number sense?

An important thing that aids in how effective children's memories are is __________.