Question 1

American parents are more likely to be satisfied with their children's school performance than are parents in Japan and Taiwan.

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American parents are more often satisfied with their children's performance in school;in contrast Japanese and Taiwanese parents set much higher standards for their children.

Question 2

By 2 years of age,most American youngsters can count to 20.

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American children can count to 20 by 4 years of age not 2 years of age.

Question 3

Retrieval from memory is most likely for math problems that involve large addends.

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Retrieval is most likely for problems with small addends because these problems are presented frequently in textbooks and by teachers.

Question 4

When it comes to skills associated with real scientific reasoning,children and adolescents typically have some obvious faults.What are some of the problems children and adolescents have with scientific problem solving?

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Question 5

What are some factors that contribute to improved reading comprehension?

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Question 6

Developmental improvements in children's writing can be traced to a number of factors.What are they?

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Question 7

Briefly describe Brainerd and Reyna's fuzzy trace theory and the results of their research on it.

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Question 8

Memory strategies are techniques or activities that improve remembering.Name and briefly discuss different memory strategies that people use.

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Question 9

Name and briefly describe the three basic principles of counting.

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Question 10

What are some common reasons why young children sometimes fail to solve problems because of poor planning?

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Question 11

American schools could be improved by giving teachers more time to prepare lessons and correct students' work.

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Changing teaching practices and attitudes toward achievement would begin to reduce the gap between American students and students in other industrialized countries.

Question 12

Preschoolers in the United States count more accurately than preschoolers in Asian countries.

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Preschoolers in Asian countries count more accurately because the words for numbers are more regular in Asian languages than they are in English.

Question 13

Your uncle is a prosecuting attorney who is considering using a young child as a witness in an upcoming trial,but he is concerned about the reliability of a child's testimony.What suggestions could you give him about how to improve the likelihood that his child witness's testimony will accurately reflect what he actually saw?

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Question 14

What are some common features of children's and adolescents' problem solving?

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Question 15

American elementary school students are better at math operations and math problem solving than their peers in Japan or Taiwan.

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Children in Japan or Taiwan are better at math than United States elementary school students.

Question 16

After children begin to receive formal arithmetic instruction in first grade,addition problems are solved less frequently by counting fingers while they are solved more frequently by counting mentally.

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Once they begin formal arithmetic instruction,children become less likely to count aloud and count using their fingers.Instead,children add and subtract by counting mentally.

Question 17

Your friends have a 3-month-old son,Zack.Two weeks ago,when Zack was at your house he had been interested in kicking at a ball that makes noise when it rolls.Yesterday when Zack was at your house,he kicked at the ball again as if he remembered moving the ball and hearing its noise.When you pointed out this "memory" to Zack's parents,they said that "everyone knows that babies don't have any memories." What can you tell your friends about memory in infants that might change their minds?

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Question 18

The stable-order principle states that number names must be counted in the same order.

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The stable-order principle is demonstrated when a child counts using the same sequence.

Question 19

When Amit counts the trucks on the table by saying "1,2,4,8… There are EIGHT trucks!" he is demonstrating the cardinality principle.

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The cardinality principle states that the last number differs from the previous ones in a counting sequence by denoting the number of objects.

Question 20

English-speaking children often stop counting at a number ending in nine because they don't know the next decade name.

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