Question 1

Outline how metamemory typically changes between the ages of 4 and 12.

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Question 2

Discuss two factors that influence whether a child will develop a false memory.

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Question 3

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the information-processing approach to understanding cognitive development.

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Question 4

Identify three strategies that children might use to solve addition problems, and illustrate each strategy using the problem 12 + 8.

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Question 5

Discuss how learning to use rules and the development of analogical reasoning are important to problem solving, including any developmental, age-related changes in these processes.

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Question 6

Discuss research evidence that relates to the suggestibility of child witnesses.

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Question 7

How does the depth of a child's knowledge base contribute to memory performance?

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Question 8

Identify two maturational factors that can account for age-related increases in speed of processing.

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Question 9

Discuss two techniques that can be used to elicit more accurate memory recall from child witnesses.

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Question 10

Describe Goswami's relational primacy hypothesis.

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Question 11

Identify two differences as to how language may partially explain observed differences in mathematical skills between students of different cultures.

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Question 12

Assume you are watching children as they compare two pictures to determine if the pictures are identical.Describe the strategies that would be used by a 4-year-old child and a 7-year-old child on this type of task.

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Question 13

Discuss three factors that affect whether a child will be able to solve an analogical-reasoning problem.

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Question 14

List the guidelines for effective classroom instruction that are based on information-processing theories.

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Question 15

List three reasons that children might display utilization deficiencies when they first acquire a new and more sophisticated strategy.

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Question 16

Identify and compare how information-processing theories of cognitive development differ from Piaget's theory.

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Question 17

Describe, and provide an example of, production deficiencies and utilization deficiencies.

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Question 18

Explain what is meant by inhibition, and identify the portion of the brain that appears to be related to inhibitory control.

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Question 19

Distinguish between implicit cognition and explicit cognition, and identify the age-related changes in the two concepts.What does the current research imply about the developmental patterns each follows?

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Question 20

Explain how knowledge base can affect the speed and capacity of information processing.

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Quiz 9: Cognitive Development: Information-Processing Perspectives and Connectionism