North Seattle Community College's

PSYCHOLOGY 200 LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Instructor: Nancy Jago Finley, nfinle@sccd.ctc.edu

CHAPTER TWELVE ESSAY QUESTIONS

PLEASE CHOOSE ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. Complete one of the case study exercises for this chapter found on the companion website for our text.

2. According to the information-processing perspective, what cognitive advances do schoolchildren make in terms of selective attention, memory skills, processing capacity, knowledge, and metacognition? Given these changes, how should a sixth-grade classroom differ from a first-grade classroom?

3. Discuss the relationship of the ability to establish hierarchies to the Piagetian concept of classification.