Deck 9: Metacognition, Reasoning and Executive Function

Question 1

___ metamemory includes knowledge of oneself as a memorizer, knowledge of the present contents of one's memory, and knowledge of task demands.

Answer 1

declarative

Question 2

The term "good ___ processor" refers to a child whose motivational orientation and general world knowledge enables the automatic use of efficient learning strategies and procedures.

Answer 2

information

Question 3

In Justice et al.'s (1997) study, children who gave ___ explanations for their use of labeling as a memory strategy also showed better recall, irrespective of age.

Answer 3

mentalistic

Question 4

Self-___ refers to the ability to keep track of where you are with respect to your memory goals.

Question 5

Self-___ refers to the ability to plan, direct and evaluate your own memory behavior. Studied in terms of aspects of executive function.

Question 6

Source ___ refers to the ability to attribute accurately the origins of one's memories, knowledge, and beliefs.

Question 7

___ function is a function of the frontal cortex involving modulation of cognitive processes in a top-down manner.

Question 8

Patients with brain damage to the frontal cortex typically show ___ card sorting behavior when asked to shift between sorting rules.

Question 9

According to "neo-Piagetian" theories of cognitive development, the amount of ___ capacity that is available to the child changes with age.

Question 10

attentional focus between conflicting representations).

Question 11

Zelazo and colleagues have proposed a distinction between "cool" and "hot" executive functions. ___ executive functions are involved in making decisions about events with emotionally significant consequences.

Question 12

Inhibitory ___ refers to the ability to inhibit responses to irrelevant stimuli while pursuing a cognitively represented goal.

Question 13

Development of executive function in late childhood is related to maturational changes in the ___ cortex of the brain.

Question 14

Traditionally, the development of reasoning and problem solving was thought to involve the acquisition of logical ___, and was studied using deductive reasoning problems.

Question 15

The hallmark of analogical reasoning is the ability to apply the ___ similarity constraint.

Question 16

___ questioning is a metacognitive strategy that might help children to represent relational structures and recognize relational similarities between old and new problems.

Question 17

In ___ reasoning, the problem solver deduces the correct answer on the basis of the logical combination of premises presented in the problem.

Question 18

All cats bark. Rex is a cat. Does Rex bark? This is an example of a ___

Question 19

___'s selection task is measure of deductive reasoning that requires participants to decide on the minimum number of pieces of evidence needed to validate a rule.

Question 20

Adults might perform better on the selection task when it is based on familiar contexts because they versions into pragmatic reasoning schemas about ___ scenarios in real life.