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Progess Test 1
Cognitive Develpment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| According to Piaget, the stage of cognitive development in which a person understands specific logical ideas and can apply them to concrete problems is called | Concrete operational thought |
| Japanese children outscore children in the US in math. This difference has been attributed to which of the following? | automatization |
| The idea that an object that has been transformed in some way can be restored to its original form by undoing the process is | reversibillity |
| Information-processing theorists contend that major advances in cognitive development occur during the school years because: | children become better able to process and analyze information. |
| Cross-cultural research on children's cognition reveals: | the same patterns of development worldwide. |
| Concrete operational thought is Piaget's term for the school-age child's ability to: | reason logically about things and events he or she perceives. |
| The term for the ability to monitor and adjust one's cognitive performance ( to think about thinking) is | metacognition |
| Long-term memory is ________ permanent and ______limited than working memory. | more; less |
| Passed in 2001, the federal law that mandates annual standardized achievement tests for public school children is the: | No Child Left Behind Act |
| Which theorist believed that cultures (tools, customs, people) teach children best? | Vygotsky |
| Which aspect of memory is most likely to change during the school years? | the speed and efficiency of working memory |
| 8 year old Cho, who recently emigrated from Mayanmar, attends a school in Canada in which all subjects are taught in English. Cho's school is using which strategy to teach English-language learners? | total emersion. |
| Many American children make a language shift. This means that they: | replace their original languange with English rather thatn becoming fluent in both languages. |
| Which theorist emphasized the critical role of maturation in cognitive development? | Piaget |
| A factor that is not important in the difference between success and failure in second-language learning? | the difficulty of language. |
| According to Piaget, 8 and 9 year olds can reason only about concrete things in their lives. "Concrete" means: | tangible or specific |
| Research regarding Piaget's theory has found that: | the movement to a new level of thinking is much more erratic than Piaget predicted. |
| The increase in processing speed that occurs during middle childhood is partly the result of: | cognitive development seems to be considerably less affected by sociocultural factors than Piaget's descriptions imply. |
| When psychologist look at the ability of children to receive, store, and organize information, they are examining | information processing. |
| The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): | measures achievement in reading, mathematics, and other subjects over time. |
| The logical operations of concrete operational thought are particularly important to an understanding of elementary-school subject(s) of: | math and science. |
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