Question 1

Working memory span reaches its full adult level by about the age of 10.

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Working memory continues to develop and improve throughout adolescence, reaching its full adult capacity in the late teens or early twenties, not by the age of 10.

Question 2

Describe some of the major developments of the preoperational stage.

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Question 3

What do we know about the use of rehearsal strategies in children's memory?

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Question 4

Infants are born with all of the brain cells and neural connections that they will ever have.

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Infants are born with a large number of brain cells, but their brains continue to develop and form new neural connections throughout childhood and into adolescence. The process of neurogenesis, or the creation of new neurons, also occurs in certain parts of the brain after birth.

Question 5

Think about the progression of problem presentation in children's math books.Early on,addition and subtraction problems are presented in pictures,as "five apples take away two apples." Later,children begin to use numbers,and finally they progress to the x's and y's of algebra.How do these textbook presentations relate to Piaget's theory?

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Question 6

Children show an implicit understanding of the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning by about second grade.

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Research in developmental psychology suggests that by second grade, children begin to demonstrate an implicit understanding of the difference between deductive reasoning (drawing specific conclusions from general information) and inductive reasoning (generalizing from specific instances), even if they cannot explicitly define or describe these processes.

Question 7

What is object permanence,and how do we know when it develops?

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Question 8

When asked to remember a set of pictures,5-year-olds rarely ever use rehearsal.

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5-year-olds typically do not use rehearsal as a memory strategy because the ability to deliberately use rehearsal to improve memory is a skill that develops with age, usually becoming more common in older children.

Question 9

Why do we speak of language as being "acquired" rather than "learned"?

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Quiz 13: Cognitive Development Through Adolescence