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Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Cognitive Development: the Information Processing Approach

Key Terms Quiz


1		refers to the retention of information over time.


2		Working memory is synonymous with -term memory that retains information for up to seconds, and distinguished from -term memory that is relatively permanent.


3		Automaticity refers to the ability to process information with little or no .


4		Attention must be as well as selective.


5		The extended repetition of material after it has been presented is called .


6		The process of involves going beyond the information given to make information more memorable.


7		Knowledge about how the human mind works is called knowledge.


8		An attempt to find an appropriate way to attain a goal when barriers prevent its immediate attainment defines solving.


9		Solving problems by relating them to previously encountered and better understood problems is called reasoning by .


10		General problem solving skills are (more/less) important than specific problem solving skills in technological societies.


11		capacity is a limiting factor that helps explain why it takes so long for children to become competent readers.


12		The process of taking stock of what you are currently doing, what you will do next, and how effectively you are thinking defines the process of .


13		are mental representations of an event or situation of daily life, including the expected order in which things should happen and how one should behave in that event or situation.


14		are cognitive representations of spatial layouts.


15		is the organization of concepts into levels of abstraction that range from the general to the specific.


16		Increasing executive functioning in childhood may reflect development of the .

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