Chapter 13, Cognitive Development Throughout the Lifespan Video Solutions, Cognition

Problem 1

Prior to the 1970 s, psychologists were pessimistic about the cognitive skills of infants and young children. Since then, however, psychologists have become more optimistic. If you wanted to impress someone with infants' and children's cognitive skills, what would you describe about their memory, metacognition, and language abilities?

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Problem 2

Part of the difficulty with infant research is designing experiments that reveal an infant's true abilities. Describe how researchers have developed experimental procedures so that they can discover infants' skills in memory and language.

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Problem 3

Compare children, young adults, and elderly people with respect to working memory, implicit memory, explicit recognition memory, and explicit recall memory. Be sure to list factors that might influence your conclusions.

Sulav Pokhrel

Numerade Educator

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Problem 4

Describe the proposed explanation for children's memory performance, which focuses on memory strategies and metamemory. Discuss the evidence for this explanation, including information on the correlation between metamemory and memory performance.

James Kiss

Numerade Educator

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Problem 5

Suppose that the outcome of an important court case in your community depends on the eyewitness testimony of a young child. What factors would encourage you to trust the child's report? What factors would make you question the child's accuracy?

Leonardo Filgueiras

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Problem 6

In general, what kinds of memory tasks are especially difficult for elderly people? What explanations can best account for memory deficits in elderly individuals? How might overconfidence and stereotypes about older adults explain these difficulties?

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Problem 7

This chapter describes children's metamemory and strategy use. What could a third-grade teacher do to encourage students' memory skills? What should this teacher know about children's metacognitive ability?

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Problem 8

In 1985, Branthwaite and Rogers commented that being a child is like being a spy who is trying to break a code to discover how the world works. Apply this idea to the development of word meaning, morphology, word order, and pragmatic rules.

Catelyn Jo

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Problem 9

Describe some of the pragmatic rules of language that are important in our culture. How does the mastery of these rules change as children develop?

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Problem 10

Consider the information about cognitive processes in this chapter. Are infants as different from young adults as you had originally thought? Do any of the findings on elderly people surprise you, or do they match your original impressions?

Emily Himsel

Numerade Educator