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Adolescence, 9/e
John W. Santrock, University of Texas, Dallas

Cognitive Development

Taking It to the Net

1. Your psychology instructor notes that in surfing the web one can find a large number of sites with IQ tests, including tests for emotional IQ, sports IQ, trivia IQ, social IQ, musical IQ, as well as tests for IQs in a variety of other areas. As an extra credit assignment the instructor challenges the class to write a two page paper indicating whose theoretical stance about intelligence could encompass such IQ concepts and how it would do so. What would you write?

http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Gardner.htm

2. Suppose your roommate complains that there is just too much material to learn in his/her classes and that he/she has a lot of trouble getting all the information into memory. You recognize this as a metamemory problem. What means would you suggest your roommate use to improve getting information into memory?

http://www.memory.uva.nl/memimprovement/eng/

3. As a dual major in biology and psychology, you realize that fundamental psychological processes such as memory, problem solving, and information processing must ultimately be tied to components of biological development. You decide to write your term paper on the links between neuroscience and cognitive development. What themes will you write about?

http://www.funderstanding.com/about_learning.cfm (Click on Neuroscience)