Exam 10: The Growth of Cognitive Skills

Even children as young as ________ years old can understand analogies if the objects are familiar to them.

All of the following are hypotheses about infantile amnesia EXCEPT:

Declarative memory differs from procedural memory because declarative memory is:

June's diary is best thought of as a collection of her ________ memories.

Kamal is told to remember the words: sting, queen, buzz, and honey.Later, when he is asked to remember the words, he is likely to misremember that he saw the word:

Bart needs to remember a ten-digit phone number.He can get around the limitations of his working memory by using:

Four-year-old Vincent is beginning to talk about important events in his past.You know this is an important step in his development of:

Angelle is learning to read by learning letters, their sounds, and how to combine them.She is being taught to read using a ________ approach.

The three components of attention are:

All of the following distinguish adults' scientific thinking from children's EXCEPT:

Twelve-year-old Akira cannot remember anything before he was a toddler.This is likely because of:

The development of reading broadly follows a child's progress through five stages.Gerard is beginning to understand the benefits of reading and starting to see how it can teach him a lot of useful information.He is in the ________ stage.

A child's ability to carry out mathematical procedures efficiently is called:

Take the stance that children can demonstrate varying levels of scientific reasoning.In your defense, include the two key explanatory processes children use.

Describe and contrast utilization and production deficits.