Exam 8: Cognition

Christopher likes to build model rockets.Because he has trouble gluing the fins on straight,he has his mother help him with this part of the model construction.The scaffolding his mother provides is a good example of scaffolding.

The ________ is the number of stimulus items that can be remembered after a brief period of time.

Gwendolyn has expressed many idealistic thoughts recently.Gwendolyn has probably attained

The earliest form of classification that emerges in the first year of life is based on

Data from fMRIs show that adolescent brains respond very differently from adults' brains when they engage in a working memory task.

The tower of Hanoi problem was used to study children's

As children grow older,they

Kylie is just about to turn one year old.This means she still has an immature hippocampus and is likely to show preference for novel objects.

________ theorists believe that human cognition is best understood as the management of information through a system with limited space and resources.

Experiments on developmental changes in recall indicate that the memory span

What are the major characteristics of thinking in the formal operational stage?

Jocelyn was playing with her sister.She picked up a broom and said,"Look,I'm riding on a horse." Jocelyn's use of the broom as a pretend horse indicates that she has acquired

The basic assumption of the limited-resource model is that the mental resources available for processing,retaining,and reporting are infinite.

The child's ability to understand that a symbol can stand for a real-life event is called a(n)

The child's inability to separate his or her own perspective from another person's viewpoint is called

Early memories are easily disrupted by

Kara's mother showed her a stack of pictures yesterday.Today,Kara's mother asked her to tell her what some of those pictures were,and Kara was able to name most of them.This type of memory is called

Although Nguyen had never seen a porcupine,when his mother told him it was an animal,Nguyen knew that a porcupine must be alive,breathe,eat,and move about.Nguyen knew this because he has

________ is a process that allows the person to focus on a selected aspect of the environment.

A task that requires an individual to state whether a picture or word was previously encountered is designed to measure ________ memory.