Question 1

Elaboration is a memory strategy that involves

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A)   repetitively naming information that is to be remembered.
B)   looking at or touching objects that are to be remembered.
C)   placing related information together.
D)   embellishing information to make it more memorable.

Question 2

Five-month-old infants

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A)   cannot distinguish one object from two objects.
B)   use the one-to-one principle.
C)   can distinguish two objects from three objects.
D)   do not seem to be sensitive to quantity as a characteristic of stimuli.

Question 3

You are part of a parent group formed to determine how your school system can improve students' academic performance. Based on research on academic excellence in Japanese and Taiwanese schools, which of the following suggestions would you make?

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A)   Give teachers less free time for lesson planning and grading papers.
B)   Spend less time on teacher training.
C)   Set lower standards for students, so they are less likely to become frustrated.
D)   Set higher standards for students and encourage them to spend more time in school-related activities. D

Question 4

Beginning readers

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A)   use sentence context to help them recognize words.
B)   rarely use "sounding out" to identify words.
C)   do not use direct retrieval of words.
D)   retrieve unfamiliar words more rapidly than familiar words.

Question 5

The process of extracting meaning from a sequence of words is referred to as

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A)   word recognition.
B)   phonological awareness.
C)   the one-to-one principle.
D)   comprehension.

Question 6

The normal working memory capacity is approximately seven items. "Items," though, may be composed of multiple units through

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A)   elaboration.
B)   metacognition.
C)   rehearsal.
D)   chunking.

Question 7

Phonological awareness

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A)   is related to success in learning to read.
B)   cannot be improved by reading to a child.
C)   does not occur until after a child has learned to read.
D)   is the process of extracting meaning from words.

Question 8

________ is a strategy of repetitively naming information that is to be remembered.

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A)   Outlining
B)   Rehearsal
C)   Monitoring
D)   Summarizing

Question 9

A child's informal understanding of memory is called

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A)   metamemory.
B)   metacognitive knowledge.
C)   cognitive self-regulation.
D)   a memory strategy. A

Question 10

Which child appears to have mastered the cardinality principle?

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A)   Kelsey, who always counts three cars as "1, 2, 3".
B)   Casey, who consistently counts three cars as "10, 9, 8".
C)   Jenny, who sometimes counts three cars as "1, a, 2, b".
D)   Haley, who counts three cars as "1, 5, 6...SIX CARS!"

Question 11

Retrieving words from memory is used in reading by

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A)   beginning readers only.
B)   skilled readers only.
C)   both beginning and skilled readers.
D)   neither beginning nor skilled readers.

Question 12

When are answers to math problems most likely to be retrieved from memory?

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A)   Before children receive formal arithmetic instruction.
B)   When there is a weaker link between the addends and the sum.
C)   When the problem has large rather than small addends.
D)   When the child solving the problem is older rather than younger.

Question 13

When parents read rhyming stories, such as those written by Dr. Seuss, to their children, their

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A)   children's phonological awareness decreases.
B)   children usually become bored and learn to dislike reading.
C)   children may enjoy it but their reading skills will not improve.
D)   children learn how to read easier.

Question 14

Your friend is having a hard time remembering the main points of his psychology textbook. If he asks you to recommend a memory strategy, which one would you suggest?

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A)   Touch the sentences that contain the main points as you read them.
B)   Read the sentences that contain the main points over and over.
C)   Outline or write a summary of the main points.
D)   Read the assigned chapter twice. C

Question 15

When Dan sees three objects, sometimes he counts them as "1, 2, 5", sometimes as "1, 2, b", and other times as "2, 1, a". Dan

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A)   appears to have mastered the one-to-one principle and the stable-order principle.
B)   appears to have mastered the one-to-one-principle but not the stable-order principle.
C)   appears to have mastered the stable-order principle but not the one-to-one principle.
D)   does not appear to have mastered the one-to-one principle or the stable-order principle.

Question 16

Ten-year-old Amy was born in Minnesota, then moved to Florida when she was two years old. Although she lived through many blizzards when in Minnesota, she can't remember ever seeing snow. What concept best explains this situation?

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A)   autobiographical memory
B)   a script
C)   infantile amnesia
D)   repeated questioning

Question 17

Scripts of events

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A)   can distort a child's memory for an event.
B)   force children to remember every individual activity that is part of an event.
C)   make remembering a specific event more difficult.
D)   do not provide information about the sequence in which events occur.

Question 18

When experiments are combined instead of evaluated independently so that the results are ambiguous, they are said to be

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A)   valid.
B)   reliable.
C)   confounded.
D)   longitudinal.

Question 19

Activities that improve memory are called

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A)   memory strategies.
B)   information processing.
C)   sensory memory.
D)   working memory.

Question 20

Infantile amnesia

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A)   means that adults can remember many events that occurred in their lives before the age of three years.
B)   means that infants are not able to form memories.
C)   may be related to the young child's well-developed sense of self.
D)   may be related to an individual's changing language ability.

Exam 7: B: Cognitive Processes and Academic Skills

Elaboration is a memory strategy that involves

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Five-month-old infants

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You are part of a parent group formed to determine how your school system can improve students' academic performance. Based on research on academic excellence in Japanese and Taiwanese schools, which of the following suggestions would you make?

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Beginning readers

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The process of extracting meaning from a sequence of words is referred to as

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The normal working memory capacity is approximately seven items. "Items," though, may be composed of multiple units through

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Phonological awareness

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________ is a strategy of repetitively naming information that is to be remembered.

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A child's informal understanding of memory is called

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Which child appears to have mastered the cardinality principle?

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Retrieving words from memory is used in reading by

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When are answers to math problems most likely to be retrieved from memory?

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When parents read rhyming stories, such as those written by Dr. Seuss, to their children, their

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Your friend is having a hard time remembering the main points of his psychology textbook. If he asks you to recommend a memory strategy, which one would you suggest?

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When Dan sees three objects, sometimes he counts them as "1, 2, 5", sometimes as "1, 2, b", and other times as "2, 1, a". Dan

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Ten-year-old Amy was born in Minnesota, then moved to Florida when she was two years old. Although she lived through many blizzards when in Minnesota, she can't remember ever seeing snow. What concept best explains this situation?

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Scripts of events

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When experiments are combined instead of evaluated independently so that the results are ambiguous, they are said to be

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Activities that improve memory are called

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