Chapter 7: Cognitive Processes & Academic Skills

Writing down notes and creating examples for the material are examples of which memory strategy?

Mental Maps, such as created when driving to school, are formed in what order?

Organizing a bunch of related items into one meaningful group is the definition for what memory strategy?

Reading from birth-beginning of grade 1 is primarily done in order to:

Simply put, memories are mental representations

The experiment where Derek remembered where more chess pieces were on the board compared to Aine supports that:

What are the two primary characteristics of human cognition?

Improvements in the early development of memory are partly traced to...

To solve a problem, you always need to select one problem-solving strategy only in order to solve efficiently.

Being unable to identify words hinders a child's enjoyment of reading

Organization is defined as:

Memory strategies can only be externally expressed in order to be effective

Metamemory is:

What is the term for a memory structure used to outline the sequence of events?

Memories don't consolidate well in early childhood. Being unable to remember early-life events is called:

What is the most important predictor for gaining pre-reading/ reading skills?

Info-processing is a theory about memory input, storage, and retrieval:

Scripts are narrative while mental maps are visual

Why is the phenomenon of "reading the paragraph of jumbled up words" a load of bullshit?

In class, Nancie showed us pictures of various types of chairs. Knowing we can sit on all of them was because:

The two most common memory strategies are rehearsal and repetition

Which is NOT one of the the 3 broad stages of Reading? (Chall, 1979)

Reading between grades 8-12 serve the purpose of:

Tasking classmates to remember 9 sets of nouns was a demonstration of...

Children were told a story about a female firefighter. When recalling the story, they said the firefighter was male:

Being aware of one's goals + successfully selecting the appropriate memory strategy= cognitive self regulation

Elmo is in lecture and realizes that his attention has drifted from the lecture to cookies. This awareness is called:

With age, children understand the "shades of grey" that scripts have. Around what age does this occur?

Preschoolers looking and touching techniques are good strategies to help them remember

Creating solutions requires:

Elaboration is when people add info to material in order to ground it in ingrained info. What else is true about it?

Repeating information that needs to be remembered is called:

When are humans able to remember events for days/weeks at a time?

The other way we identify words involves visual retrieval

Phonological decoding is one of two ways we identify words. What is phonological decoding?