Exam 8: Cognition

According to Piaget,the child who first begins to think operationally is initially limited to doing so with

One manifestation of the child's executive function is the growth of

Cathy knows that to get from her house to the grocery store,she must make a left at the red house on the corner and then a right at the stop sign.Cathy is using the red house as a ________ to help her find her way to the grocery store.

Michael,Jessie,and Brendan are three,seven,and twelve years old,respectively.Discuss how they differ in their thinking capabilities according to Piagetian theory.

One of Piaget's major contributions to developmental psychology has been to

Organization is

Episodic memory consists of facts or concepts that are stored without reference to a specific previous event.

The "A,not B" error refers to the

Joan has difficulty tying the knots for the sails on her sailboat.According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory,Joan could benefit most from

What is metamemory? What does it reflect in terms of memory and development?

Infants are capable of remembering very specific properties of an auditory stimulus for many hours.

When problem-solving situations look perceptually different but share similar goal sequences,infants of one year are able to transfer the solution to other problems once successful with the first one.

Landmark cues,such as the shape of a room,help children orient themselves in space.

In multistore models,the executive decision maker,called the ________,oversees the communications among the structures of the information-processing system.After a decision is made,the ________ functions to help the person answer.

As infants mature they store information

The correct order of stages in Piaget's theory is

What is the executive function? What is its importance in terms of cognitive development? Explain the factors of assessing and understanding the executive function that apply to preteens,adolescents,and adults.

Infants seem unable to appreciate the concept of object solidity,the fact that one object cannot pass through the space that is occupied by another object.

In a research study,it was observed that older students engaged in more spontaneous rehearsal than younger students,and when asked to identify pictures that had been shown to them fifteen seconds earlier,the older students showed significantly greater accuracy.This suggests that

The information-processing model that describes a sequence of mental structures through which information flows is called a ________ model.