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WorksheetsExam 2 Review Questions
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is the most fundamental assumption that all information-processing theories of development share?
Thinking is information-processing.
Emotions enable information process to occur.
Adaptation is necessary for information-processing.
Formal models best demonstrate how information is processed.
Older children can maintain more information in working memory than younger children because ___.
the amount of information stored in semantic memory increases with age
scientific reasoning skills improve with age
pronunciation speed increases with age
central conceptual structures become more complex with age
Which of the following is most likely to interfere with your ability to remember a list of words?
finding a starred location on a map
swimming 5 laps
imagining yourself riding a roller coaster
having a conversation with your friend
Suppose a child is helping her father with the laundry. Her father asks her to sort the clothes into two piles: shirts and pants. After a few minutes of sorting, the child’s father realizes that he made a mistake. He points out the mistake to the child and asks her to start sorting the clothes into two different piles: dark colors and light colors. The child will start being able to perform this switch effectively around age ___.
two
four
six
eight
Information processing models often depict cognition as having a dual nature. Thus, they focus on both the _________ (parts of the mind) and the __________ (how those parts come together).
Structures of the mind; processes of the mind
Processes of the mind; structures of the mind
Engine; plane
Plane; engine
Doug, a 1-month-old infant, is presented with picture of a square. Doug’s fixations will be centered at the ___.
center of the square
top of the square
left-hand side of the square
corners of the square
What is the Flynn effect? (From the learning activity)
The increase in IQ scores of approximately 10 points for each decade from the 1900s to the 2000s.
The increase in IQ scores in urban communities compared to agricultural communities.
The increase in IQ scores in industrialized nations compared to other nations.
The increase in IQ scores of approximately 3 points for each decade from the 1900s to the 2000s.
In a study by Eimas and colleagues (1971), young infants were presented with an auditory stimulus from the ba/pa continuum over and over again until they decreased the rate at which they sucked on a pacifier. Then, infants were presented with a novel auditory stimulus that differed in voice onset time from the original auditory stimulus by a fixed amount. When the novel stimulus was on a different side of the ba/pa category boundary than the original stimulus, infants’ sucking rate ________, when the novel stimulus was within the same category as the original stimulus, infants’ sucking rate ________.
increased, decreased
remained constant, remained constant
decreased, increased
increased, remained constant
Which of the following abilities develops in a U-shaped fashion?
perception of phonemic contrasts
discrimination of varieties of human motion
localization of sounds
vision for fine detail
(In lectures for perception.) The moderate-discrepancy hypothesis states that:
researchers should examine research questions slightly discrepant from previous research.
infants prefer looking at objects that are slightly more complex than what they were previously familiar with.
infants prefer objects that strengthen their visual acuity.
infants prefer looking at objects that are familiar over novel objects.
