How does an increase in processing speed in the brain contribute to cognitive development in middle childhood?
What will be an ideal response?
There are several possibilities.
The faster that information can be encoded into working memory, the more likely it will be retained long enough to perform appropriate operations on it (like adding or subtracting).
The more quickly and accurately children can perform the calculations, the less likely they are to make mistakes or lose track of the problem goal.
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Chapter 12, on reasoning and decision making, emphasizes that we frequently endorse our current hypotheses and thoughts, rather than questioning them. Which of the following topics is least likely to show an overemphasis on our current hypotheses?
a. the confirmation bias b. illusory correlations c. the recognition heuristic d. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic
If someone has an answer stuck "on the tip of their tongue," this is most likely a(n) ________ failure
a) encoding b) retrieval c) storage d) attentional