A slogan of the mental skill called reasoning would be,
a. Make decisions like a computer would do..
b. Wrong answers are completely false..
c. Go beyond the information given..
d. One false move and you're out..
Question 2While they mature, older children process information faster and more efficiently, thus expanding their
a. metamemory.
b. knowledge base.
c. memory strategies.
d. working memory capacity.
Question 3As compared with young children, older children apply better tactics or ____ to enhance performance.
a. working memory capacity
b. memory strategies
c. a knowledge base
d. metamemory
Question 4Older children know more about their memory than they did at younger ages, thus expanding their
a. metamemory.
b. knowledge base.
c. memory strategies.
d. working memory capacity.
Question 5Older children know more than younger children, which expands their ____ to improve their memory.
a. working memory capacity
b. memory strategies
c. knowledge base
d. metamemory
Question 6Researchers have found that African adolescents display better recall for orally transmitted stories than do American adolescents. This is an example of
a. the impact of economics on schooling practices.
b. differences in brain function across cultures.
c. biological predispositions for the use of certain strategies.
d. cross-cultural differences in the tools of intellectual adaptation for remembering.
Question 7Despite their lack of instruction in memorization strategies, Australian aboriginal children do better than educated Caucasian children while learning
a. items on shopping lists.
b. names and dates of historical events.
c. locations of objects in a local setting.
d. events that happened during infancy in one's own life.
Question 8The memorization strategies learned by American children will be LEAST helpful in recalling this type of material:
a. instructions for a set of related video games.
b. orally transmitted stories.
c. grammatical rules for language.
d. word lists.