How do television and computers influence children's cognition?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
- Initially the amount of time spent in front of television and computers needs to be considered, monitored, and limited.
- Preschoolers have limits to their understanding of television
- Limits to their ability to separate fantasy and reality
- Unable to separate programming and commercial messages
- Unable to make inferences and understand the intentions of characters
- Inconsistent standards of programming for young children (not to mention children's exposure to programming intended for much older children and/or adults!)
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Which of the following students provides the best summary of the viewpoint that language is modular?
a. Eleanor: "We can generate a virtually infinite number of sentences in a given language." b. Anthony: "We process language in a different way than we perform other cognitive tasks." c. Svetlana: "Language is interconnected with many other cognitive tasks, such as working memory and decision making." d. Oswald: "Language is based on the model that memory is divided into sensory memory, working memory, and long-term memory."
Discussions that focus on recognition and mastery issues are typical of
A) boys. B) girls. C) teenagers. D) young adults.