Week 4 - Cognitive Development

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Undergrad PSY235 - Developmental Psychology Quiz on Week 4 - Cognitive Development, created by Daniel Whiting on 27/08/2017.
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Question 1

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The information processing approach to development takes a...
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  • continuous perspective
  • discontinuous perspective
  • stage-like perspective
  • socio-cognitive perspective

Question 2

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What are the 4 areas of children's thinking according to Siegler?
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  • Encoding
  • Automaticity
  • Generalisation
  • Strategy Construction
  • Recall
  • Recognition
  • Retrieval
  • Sensorimotor

Question 3

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At what age to infants begin to selectively attend to objects?
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  • 4 months
  • 4 weeks
  • 4 days
  • 24 weeks
  • 6 months

Question 4

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At what age do children start to efficiently attend to task relevant stimuli?
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  • 6-7 years
  • 7-8 years
  • 9 years
  • 5 years

Question 5

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Incidental learning decreases rapidly after what age?
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  • 11 years
  • 6-7 years
  • 12 years
  • 8-9 years

Question 6

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What are 2 ways memory is tested in infants?
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  • Habituation
  • Operant conditioning
  • Classical conditioning
  • Sensitisation

Question 7

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Implicit memory develops up until adolescence.
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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What are some of the memory strategies and ages at which they typically develop?
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  • Rehearsal
  • Scripts (2-3)
  • Elaboration (12+)
  • Organisation (9-10)
  • Use of notes (5-6)
  • Elaboration (9-10)
  • Organisation (12+)

Question 9

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What are some of the things that increase memory as we age?
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  • Faster processing time
  • Better strategies
  • Greater knowledge base
  • Better metamemory
  • Better metacommunication
  • Scaffolding
  • Zone of proximal development

Question 10

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[blank_start]Vygotsky[blank_end] saw private speech as a child being more socially competent. [blank_start]Piaget[blank_end] saw private speech as a child being cognitively immature.
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  • Vygotsky
  • Piaget
  • Freud

Question 11

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[blank_start]Realism[blank_end] describes how before 6-7 years of age children think their dreams and thoughts are real and could be seen by anyone. [blank_start]Animism[blank_end] describes how children think inanimate things are alive and have intentions.
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  • Realism
  • Realisation
  • Animism
  • Personification
  • Humanisation

Question 12

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At what age does joint attention and social referencing start occurring?
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  • 8-12 months
  • 8-12 weeks
  • 10 weeks
  • 7 months
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